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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Child's Return".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mini's mother like?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Jocular.
(c) Melancholic.
(d) Aggressive.

2. How does Rahman appear different when he arrives in the narrator's study on the day of the wedding?
(a) He seems more vigorous.
(b) He has gained weight.
(c) There is a scar on his face.
(d) His hair is cut shorter.

3. What does the postmaster do to try to pass the time?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Card games.
(c) Painting.
(d) Write verse.

4. What do most people think happened to the missing boy?
(a) Taken by outsiders.
(b) Fell in the Padma.
(c) Kidnapped by Raicharan.
(d) Ran away.

5. In "The Cabuliwallah," what is the name of the hero in the narrator's novel?
(a) Venu.
(b) Ratan.
(c) Pratap.
(d) Phatik.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rahman say he will do to his father-in-law?

2. What is your father-in-law's house a euphemism for?

3. Where is Rahman from?

4. Who plays with Raicharan's son?

5. What did the postmaster have to console himself with that Ratan lacked?

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