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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the spirit that supposedly protects girls and women do so?
(a) She is paid to protect girls and women.
(b) She was tasked to do it by a God.
(c) She was killed by an evil man herself.
(d) Her own daughter was killed.

2. Who was the kindly boss-man of about 20 children?
(a) Baiz.
(b) Mental.
(c) Quarter.
(d) Pradhan.

3. Who is the first child to disappear?
(a) Rhadan.
(b) Omvir.
(c) Pari.
(d) Bahadur.

4. Who is the second child to disappear, in Part II?
(a) Chandi.
(b) Omvir.
(c) Aanchal.
(d) Beri.

5. What is a terrible sign of pollution in Jai's city?
(a) Dog poop.
(b) The rain is green.
(c) Burning trash.
(d) Smog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term of affection does Jai's mother use for him in Part II?

2. What does Jai appreciate about the way Runu-Didi is at school with him?

3. What does Bahadur's Ma say about his personality?

4. What does Omvir fear will happen to him if he does not get out of his basti?

5. Who is Bahadur's Papa?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Bahadur spent a lot of his time when he is not home, and why does he spend time in this place?

2. Who do Jai and his friends start to think might have kidnapped Bahadur early in Part II?

3. Why does Jai's friend Faiz work part-time even though he is just a child?

4. What does Jai do in Part II that he feels very guilty about afterwards, and why?

5. What is Jai's and his friends' first job as "detectives" and why is this?

6. What does a woman at the train station in Part II try to give Jai and Pari and who intervenes?

7. What does Omvir's father do and what does Omvir resent about his life?

8. What does Junction-Ki-Rani reportedly do for young women?

9. What is one of the most obvious signs of the pollution in Jai's city, and how do the residents deal with it?

10. How does Jai feel about his ride on the Purple Line?

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