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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. Where is Dev's favorite place in the city that he takes Miranda?

2. What did the neighbors think Bibi had never been taught correctly?

3. What is the name of the department store where Miranda meets Dev?

4. What does Bibi want all the neighbors to tell her about?

5. What is Laxmi always eating at her desk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What purchases does Miranda make because she thinks they are things a mistress would buy?

2. What do Dev and Miranda do one day when they are walking around Boston? What does Dev tell her during this outing?

3. What does Rohin, the seven-year-old, tell Miranda that makes her rethink her decision to be with Dev?

4. What does Twinkle find in the yard of her new house, and how did their reactions to this item once again differ?

5. What is found during the housewarming party Sanjeev and Twinkle have for Sanjeev's friends?

6. How do the neighbor's protest Haldar's treatment of Bibi?

7. What happens to Bibi when her cousin's wife becomes pregnant?

8. What ends up happening to Bibi after her cousin abandons her?

9. Where did Miranda meet Dev?

10. Why do Bibi's cousin and his wife doubt there is a cure for Bibi?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the different marriages presented in the stories. What aspects of the marriages are due to culture and what aspects transcend culture differences?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the imagery presented by buildings, houses and monuments in all the stories.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how each story contains a character with a "malady" that is misinterpreted.

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