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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 Mrs. Das do in the car as her family drives through In India?

2. Shoba thought the poem Shukumar published was what?

3. Lilia treats the little candies Mr. Pirzada brings her like what?

4. What gets stolen from the building while Boori Ma is away for the afternoon?

5. Where does Boori Ma sleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Lilia returns from trick-or-treating?

2. What unfortunate incident occurs on the trip to the hills of Udayagiri?

3. What does Shoba tell Shukumar on the night the power is restored?

4. What do the residents of the building think about Boori Ma?

5. Why does Shukumar not look forward to the weekends when Shoba is home?

6. Without the Dalals around to protect her, what happens to Boori Ma?

7. What happens after Mr. Pirzada returns to Pakistan?

8. What secret does Mina Das reveal to Mr. Kapasi?

9. What do Shoba and Shukumar tell each other the second night of the telling game?

10. What happens to Boori Ma when the wives of the building decide to make improvements while the Dalals are out of town?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What commentary on American life is Lahiri making through the plots and characters of her collection of stories?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the use of secrets in various stories in the collection. What impact did revealing a secret have on the individual characters and plots of these stories?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how the narrator in "The Third and Final Continent is an archetype of the male Indian-American immigrant and the irony presented by the dream he has for his son.

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