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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Chandni's Ma at the police station?
(a) The police beat her.
(b) She got lost on the way home.
(c) The mob grabbed her and told her to go home.
(d) The police told her they would do everything they could.

2. Why does Jai get a job?
(a) To pay for school.
(b) To give to Runu-Didi for her new uniform.
(c) To give to Faiz for his family's food.
(d) To replace the money he took from the Parachute tub.

3. Why does the T.V.-repair chacha think Bahadur hid all his money in the shop?
(a) He was saving it for a train ticket.
(b) He was saving it for college.
(c) He was saving it for food.
(d) He did not want his father Drunkard Laloo to find it.

4. What does Tariq-Bhai say the police should use to track Aanchal's phone?
(a) A sim code
(b) GPS.
(c) A special super-tracker.
(d) An IMEI number.

5. What does Jai tell Runu when she tells him not to wait for her to walk home from school together?
(a) To pick ticks off of her coach-boyfriend's balls.
(b) To go get kidnapped.
(c) To go eat dung.
(d) To go make her music.

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

7. Why does Jai not feel like gathering clues about the missing Muslim children?
(a) He does not care about Muslims, only Hindus.
(b) He has to concentrate on running instead.
(c) He does not think he will be able to find them no matter how much information he gathers.
(d) He has to concentrate on helping Faiz make money to feed his family instead.

8. What does a chacha in the toilet line say that makes Jai feel like crying in Part III?
(a) There is no greater misfortune than to outlive your child.
(b) It is a sin to be hungry all the time.
(c) Why are the missing children's friends not doing more to try to find them?
(d) Why is it so hard to find missing children?

9. Who is the owner of the beloved pet who is brutally killed in Part IV?
(a) Fatima.
(b) Faiz.
(c) Jai.
(d) Pari.

10. Why does Jai think Omvir's mother is always angry?
(a) She has no money.
(b) She hates her boss.
(c) She has an angry baby.
(d) Because Omvir is missing.

11. What rumor is going around about the third child to disappear?
(a) She had no mother or father.
(b) She was homeless.
(c) She owed some powerful people a lot of money.
(d) She was a brothel-lady.

12. Who does Jai notice hanging around Runu-Didi often?
(a) A teacher from the history department.
(b) A boy with a lot of pimples.
(c) The wrestler-type man.
(d) A black cat.

13. What was Aanchal going to classes to learn?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Math.
(c) English.
(d) Dental hygiene.

14. What does Jai's and Runu's father tell them very seriously in Part III?
(a) Not to wander around alone.
(b) Not to steal money.
(c) Not to turn on the television at night.
(d) To let all their stray pets go once and for all.

15. Why is Jai so alarmed when Papa hits Runu?
(a) He has hit Jai but not Runu before.
(b) Ma asked Papa to hit Runu.
(c) Papa once promised never to hit them.
(d) He has never hit any of them before.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two things Jai's Ma removes from her bundle of valuable possessions?

2. What are the names of the two Muslim children who were snatched?

3. What does the policeman tell Pari when she threatens to expose the terrible conditions of the prison?

4. How do the basti people generally treat the baba in Part IV?

5. What happened when Aanchal's father called her mobile after she went missing?

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