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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Instead of going to "Tampah" and burning the suit under the tree on campus, where did Jasmine burn the suit?
(a) Behind the hotel in a trash can.
(b) In a garbage can in the hotel room.
(c) On the shore where they arrived.
(d) On a road away from the hotel.

2. In the United States, where does Jasmine make her home with Bud?
(a) Flushing, New York.
(b) San Diego, California.
(c) Baden, Iowa.
(d) Fowlers Key, Florida.

3. What filled the brass-pitchers carried to the latrine?
(a) Water.
(b) Ice.
(c) Tea.
(d) Milk.

4. Which item was NOT in the suitcase Jasmine brought from India to America?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Suit.
(c) Pictures.
(d) An old sari.

5. Who is Mataji?
(a) Pitaji's mother.
(b) Jasmine's mother.
(c) Dida's sister.
(d) Jasmine's sister.

6. Who is a lotus blooming in cow dung?
(a) Vilma.
(b) Dida.
(c) Mataji.
(d) Jasmine.

7. Who said "very, very, very Indian, Jassy"?
(a) Little Clyde.
(b) Taylor.
(c) Bud.
(d) Mother Ripplemeyer.

8. What were the courtyard toilets filled with?
(a) Lye.
(b) Water.
(c) Ashes.
(d) Leaves.

9. In which state do Darrel's parents vacation in January?
(a) Florida.
(b) New York.
(c) Nevada.
(d) California.

10. What is the name of the local beauty salon?
(a) Madam Cleo's.
(b) Baden's Hair Salon.
(c) Karin's Kurls.
(d) Mother's Beauty Parlor.

11. Who is Dida?
(a) Mataji's mother.
(b) Jasmine's aunt.
(c) Pitaji's mother.
(d) Jasmine's sister.

12. Who were witnesses to Masterji's murder?
(a) His family.
(b) The doctor.
(c) His neighbors.
(d) His students.

13. What was the name of the hotel Jasmine stayed in upon arrival in America?
(a) Pelican Bay.
(b) Flamingo Court.
(c) Pink Inn.
(d) Paradise Bay.

14. How many Lions deliver the bomb that kill Prakash?
(a) One.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

15. Who goes early for the latrine hour?
(a) Men.
(b) Maidservants.
(c) Children.
(d) Neighborhood women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a nullah?

2. What is the name of the new Sikh boys' gang?

3. Whom did Jasmine stay with at the hotel?

4. The bomb that killed Prakash was inside of what?

5. During her fall Jasmine's forehead is cut by what?

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