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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jai's Ma wrap in her bedsheet?

3. What does Quarter always wear?

4. Who are Jai's best friends?

5. What does Jai plan on asking for at the railway station that he thinks might help them find Bahadur?

Short Essay Questions

1. What television shows does Jai like the most, and why?

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

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

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

5. What is Runu-Didi's dream and how do others feel about this dream?

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

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

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

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

10. How do children ask for Mental's protection after he dies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some significant similarities, and differences, between the circumstances under which each of the children in this novel are kidnapped? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What do you think Anappara intends to convey to the reader about school leadership and the attitudes of adults in power towards children from poor neighborhoods through the character Kirpal-Sir? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How do the police treat the parents of the missing children from Jai's basti, and how do the parents respond? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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