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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 266 - 338).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Pari suggest getting money for train tickets?
(a) Asking Faiz.
(b) Asking Drunkard Laloo.
(c) Aking Jai's mother.
(d) Asking Bahadur's Ma.

2. What does Runu-Didi say that prompts her father to slap her?
(a) She tells her parents they are poor and ignorant.
(b) She tells her parents she will go to college no matter what.
(c) She tells her parents she is running away.
(d) She asks her parents why they had Jai if they could not look after him.

3. What does Aanchal threaten to do if the man who is harassing her does not stop?
(a) Call the police.
(b) Scream to wake the whole basti.
(c) Run as fast as she can.
(d) Stab him.

4. What does Jai hear his Ma's hi-fi lady tell her over the phone in Part IV?
(a) She has one more chance.
(b) She is fired.
(c) She is a terrible cook.
(d) She can find a hundred people to do her job.

5. Who do some children tell Pari and Jai they should talk to about finding Bahadur when they take the Purple Line train?
(a) Peri.
(b) Gurr.
(c) Jindal.
(d) Fara.

Short Answer Questions

1. What deal do Runu and Jai make in Part III?

2. What does Faiz call his mother?

3. What does the old woman at the railway station try to give Pari and Jai?

4. What terrible thing happens in Faiz's family in Part IV?

5. What does Ma accuse Runu-Didi of doing aside from running?

(see the answer key)

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