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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 Deven begin to do as Nur's wife cradles the crying child in their room?
(a) He quietly leaves the room.
(b) He cleans Nur's vomit.
(c) He helps Nur up and brings him back to his friends.
(d) He sings the child a lullaby.

2. How does Deven feel during his walk around the village with Manu?
(a) Distraught.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Peaceful.

3. What subject does Deven teach at the university?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Math.
(c) Hindi.
(d) Urdu.

4. Where does Murad visit Deven at the start of Chapter 1?
(a) The college.
(b) The newsstand.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) Deven's house.

5. Why did Deven's mother send him to live in Delhi when he was young?
(a) Deven had asked to move too Delhi.
(b) His father lived in Delhi.
(c) Deven was too much trouble for her.
(d) His father had passed away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state does Deven find Nur in after Nur sneaked away from his friends the first night they met?

2. Where does Murad live?

3. Who does Deven envision "holding a tattered copy of poems in his hands" (70) while looking through Manu's books?

4. What words are used to describe the way the world outside the bus window looks to Deven as he rides back to Mirpore at the start of Chapter 4?

5. How did Deven and Sarla come to be married?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the guru-shishya tradition and why does Murad mention it to Deven in Chapter 5?

2. Describe what Deven sees when he first enters Nur's room in Chapter 2?

3. Why is Deven surprised at the company Nur keeps when he first meets him?

4. What excuse does Deven give to Nur for why he teaches Hindi rather than work in Urdu?

5. Why does Deven begin to question agreeing to interview Nur in Chapter 2 while he rides the bus to Delhi?

6. Who is Mrs. Bhalla? What does she say to Deven when he arrives home after his lectures in Chapter 4?

7. Why does Deven go to the college rather than home when he first returns to Mirpore after his first visit to Delhi? What does he do at the college?

8. How does Deven feel about his visit from his old friend Murad at the start of Chapter 1?

9. What scene does Deven encounter when he follows Nur and the sounds of screaming during his first visit in Chapter 3?

10. Describe Deven's walk with his son, Manu at the end of Chapter 4.

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