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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 awakens Yezad in the middle of the night?
2. What does Murad get Jehangir for Christmas?
3. What does Yezad tell Jehangir that his name means?
4. How does Mrs. Kapur act when Yezad asks about his Christmas present from Mr. Kapur?
5. What is Kapur's justification for not being treated like a common person?
Short Essay Questions
1. What changes in behavior does Kapur make in order to become more like the common people?
2. What impact does Mr. Kapur's decision about running for municipal council have on Yezad?
3. What are Mr. Kapur's wife's reasons for not wanting him to run for public office?
4. What does Yezad learn when he calls Mr. Kapur to say he will not be in to work because of Coomy's death?
5. As the family leaves Pleasant Villa for the last time, Roxana and Jehangir look out the car window and see the same bird, but each one interprets it differently. How do Roxana and Jehangir see the bird differently?
6. Why does Jal take money from his account and go to visit Roxana?
7. Describe why both Roxana and Yezad are puzzled about the amount of money in the budget envelopes.
8. What did Murad do in order to have enough money to buy Christmas presents for his family?
9. In what ways do Jal and Yezad begin to act differently after Coomy and Kapur's deaths?
10. What can we learn about the relationship between Roxana and Yezad when Yezad tells Roxana he lost their money playing Matka?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Late in the book, Yezad discovers that there are really only two things that matter: religion and family. Show how both elements were important throughout the book to individual characters as well as methods by which Mistry told the story.
Essay Topic 2
The author of Family Matters uses flashback to fill in parts of the story. Through whose eyes do we experience the flashbacks and how are they important to the story? Do the flashbacks help you learn any more about the character than what the front story tells? Is this a useful technique to employ in this story? Why/why not?
Essay Topic 3
Nariman is kept from following his heart by the tenets of his religious belief. What is this belief? How does it control his life? Is that a good thing? How could his life have been different if he had followed his heart?
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