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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 important test did Aanchal fail?
(a) Her college entry exams.
(b) Her dental exams.
(c) Her chemistry exams.
(d) Her tenth-standard exams.

2. What prompts Jai's Papa to tell him that the missing children are not a game?
(a) When his cousin goes missing.
(b) When the police really do start talking about bulldozing the basti.
(c) When two Musalman children go missing soon after Christmas.
(d) When children's bodies start turning up.

3. What does Jai think is the worst thing about the poem he has to learn?
(a) It has too many words.
(b) It does not even rhyme.
(c) It does not answer its own questions.
(d) It is like a song.

4. Where does Jai get his first paying job?
(a) The Dal shop.
(b) Duttaram's tea shop.
(c) The Florist.
(d) The clothing store.

5. 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 is running away.
(c) She asks her parents why they had Jai if they could not look after him.
(d) She tells her parents she will go to college no matter what.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jai hear his Ma's hi-fi lady tell her over the phone in Part IV?

2. What does Tariq-Bhai know a lot about?

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

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

5. What does Jai's mother tell him she has to go to work after all in Part IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Jai, Pari and Faiz eventually learn that Aanchal was doing regularly to better herself?

2. What does Jai think about the T.V.-repair chacha?

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

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

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

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

7. Who does Jai's Ma work for and how is she treated at her work?

8. What happens in Part IV that shocks and appals Jai's basti?

9. Why is Papa increasingly frustrated with Jai in Part IV?

10. What do Pari, Jai, and Faiz think about Djinns?

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