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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nitin believe he can't stay awake?
(a) Because the world is too scary.
(b) Because his life is so boring.
(c) Because he drinks too much tea.
(d) Because he's enchanted.

2. What do the Vano believe is special about Nitin?
(a) He is very intelligent.
(b) He's been touched by the goddess.
(c) He has magical powers.
(d) He speaks an unknown language.

3. How does Master Mohan kill himself?
(a) Offered himself as a sacrifice.
(b) Poisoned himself.
(c) Threw himself in front of a train.
(d) Jumped into the river.

4. After the narrator's meeting with the monk, why does he avoid the caves?
(a) So he won't get lost.
(b) So he won't meet another stranger.
(c) He's afraid of spiders.
(d) He's afraid of the dark.

5. What has the poet Kabir offered to Indian religions?
(a) United Hinduism and Islam.
(b) Offers a single religious text.
(c) Created Hinduism.
(d) Created an alternative to religion.

6. What about Rima's marriage distresses Nitin?
(a) She loves her husband too much.
(b) She is unfaithful.
(c) Her husband is poor.
(d) Her husband is abusive.

7. Why can't anyone accompany Nitin?
(a) He runs too fast.
(b) Everyone's afraid of him.
(c) No outsiders are allowed in the Vano Village.
(d) He asked everyone not to.

8. What causes possession, in the doctor's opinion?
(a) If one believes they are.
(b) Emotional trauma.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Bad karma.

9. What is Tariq Mia's pet name for the narrator?
(a) Funny Buddy.
(b) Cuz.
(c) Little Brother.
(d) Know-It-All.

10. What does the narrator stop to watch on his way home?
(a) A woman waiting at the bus stop.
(b) Children playing stickball.
(c) The Narmada's waves.
(d) Vano Village women.

11. Why does the narrator not know that Nitin has gone?
(a) Nitin placed a dummy in his bed.
(b) He didn't expect Nitin to run away.
(c) He was asleep.
(d) There were voices coming from Nitin's room.

12. Why does the narrator read Nitin's diary?
(a) Because he's a snoop.
(b) Because his father asked him to.
(c) To understand what happened.
(d) Because Nitin is brilliant.

13. Where must Nitin submerge the figure?
(a) In the baptismal.
(b) The Narmada River.
(c) A bowl of holy water.
(d) In a spring on the mountain.

14. As the narrator looks at the river one morning, who does the narrator imagine he may see floating in it one day?
(a) Tariq Mia.
(b) The monk.
(c) His wife.
(d) Himself.

15. Why does Imrat have to practice in the park?
(a) Master Mohan's wife doesn't let him do it in the house.
(b) He has indoor allergies.
(c) The trees inspire him.
(d) He can earn money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should the sisters not walk alone?

2. The narrator was once a bureaucrat, but is now a ___________.

3. When a Jain becomes a monk, what part of the ceremony marks their departure from the world?

4. In the Jain monk's story, the crowd at the ceremony is excited by what, other than his diamonds?

5. What is the benefit of Nitin going to Vano Village?

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