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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. In "A Traveller's Tale," what is the name of the ghost who appears in the narrator's room?
(a) Mr. Bond.
(b) Sunder Singh.
(c) Hazoor Ali.
(d) Mr. Robbins.

2. In "And Now We are Twelve," what is the name of the man whose wife, children, and grandchildren form Bond's family?
(a) Rakesh.
(b) Atish.
(c) Prem.
(d) Suresh.

3. At the end of "The Tunnel," where is Suraj going on the train?
(a) To stay at a boarding school in Bombay.
(b) On a business trip to Delhi, with his father.
(c) To visit his grandparents in Mussoorie.
(d) On a family vacation to Goa.

4. In "The Tunnel," what is the tunnel watchman's name?
(a) Girish Goswami.
(b) Varun Joshi.
(c) Sunder Singh.
(d) Mohan Bohra.

5. In "The Night the Roof Blew Off," which author does the narrator mention?
(a) Flannery O'Connor.
(b) Frank O'Hara
(c) Anton Chekov.
(d) James Thurbur.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Night the Roof Blew Off," how long has the family lived in the house?

2. In "Those Three Bears," what does the young bear do when it realizes that the narrator is looking at it?

3. In "When the Trees Walked," in what surprising place does the grandfather plant trees?

4. In "The Coral Tree," what does the young girl want help with?

5. In "Pret in the House," what happens when the road gets widened?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Pret in the House," what happens with the ghost at the end of the story, and how does the reader know this?

2. In "The Night the Roof Blew Off," what reasons do the family have for thinking that the roof will last through any storm?

3. In "Those Three Bears," what causes the young bear to fall from the tree?

4. In "The Tunnel," what animal ends up in the tunnel and what do Sunder and Suraj do about it?

5. In "The Overcoat," what does the narrator discover when he talks to Mrs. Taylor?

6. In "The Coral Tree," what is the significance of the narrator's repeated claim that the girl is "fresh and clean like the rain and the red earth" (118, 121)?

7. In "A Traveller's Tale," what happens when the narrator hears a tapping at his window at night?

8. In "Those Three Bears," where is the narrator from, and how does the reader know this?

9. In "Goodbye, Miss Mackenzie," what object does Miss Mackenzie share with Anil, and what happens to this object in the end of the story?

10. Why is the narrator of "The Overcoat" unconcerned that neither he nor anyone at the party knows Julie?

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