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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. What does Tariq-Bhai know a lot about?
(a) Mobile phones.
(b) Women.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Pools.

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

3. Why does Jai's boss sometimes pay him less than they agreed?
(a) Jai ruins some clothes.
(b) Jai breaks some glasses.
(c) Jai loses some flowers.
(d) Jai offends the customers.

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

5. What happened when Aanchal's father called her mobile after she went missing?
(a) The phone rang inside his own house because Aanchal had left it there.
(b) The phone never even rang.
(c) She answered but was cut off.
(d) A man answered.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Faiz find out where Aanchal's house is?

2. Where does Duttaram ask Jai to deliver tea in Part III?

3. What does Jai think is the worst thing about the poem he has to learn?

4. What form do djinns sometimes take, according to legends?

5. Who waits with Runu-Didi and Jai at their house until their mother gets home on the last day of the year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Papa tell Quarter in Part IV that takes courage?

2. What do some Hindus, including the pradhan, say about Muslims in Part IV?

3. What does Runu-Didi tell Jai about why someone is stealing so many children, and how does he react?

4. Why are Jai's and Runu-Didi's parents angry with them towards the end of Part III?

5. Why does Papa hit Runu-Didi in Part IV?

6. Why is Faiz's brother Tariq-Bhai arrested?

7. In the section in Part III that explains what happened to Aanchal, what made her very uncomfortable on the night she disappeared?

8. Why does Khadifa resent her brother Kabir in Part IV?

9. Why do some people change their minds about the kidnappings being done by Muslims in Part IV?

10. What is Faiz worried about when Tariq-Bhai is arrested?

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