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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Child's Return," what service does the master's boy enter after college?
(a) Postal.
(b) Military.
(c) Medical.
(d) Judicial.

2. What does the postmaster give to Ratan before leaving?
(a) A pocket knife.
(b) Most of his month's salary.
(c) A wooden figure of a little bird.
(d) His address in Calcutta.

3. What did Ratan used to play with her little brother?
(a) Hide and seek.
(b) Tag.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Marbles.

4. What did the postmaster have to console himself with that Ratan lacked?
(a) A brother.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Money.
(d) A warm coat.

5. What is the name of Raicharan's boy?
(a) Rahman.
(b) Phailna.
(c) Ratan.
(d) Anukul.

6. Who says that Raicharan cannot remain in the household?
(a) Anukul.
(b) The mistress.
(c) Raicharan.
(d) Phailna.

7. What does Raicharan tell his mistress that her son will be?
(a) A poet.
(b) A judge.
(c) A banker.
(d) An actor.

8. Who looks after Raicharan's baby boy when he is first born?
(a) The baby's father.
(b) The baby's uncle.
(c) The baby's aunt.
(d) The baby's mother.

9. What is Anukul's wife doing when Raicharan visits their house?
(a) Playing with her daughter.
(b) Cursing Raicharan.
(c) Buying a herb meant to ensure the birth of a child.
(d) Praying for her missing son.

10. What is the narrator doing when Rahman is arrested?
(a) Correcting proof-sheets.
(b) Planning a household event.
(c) Drinking tea.
(d) Writing the 18th chapter.

11. How does Phailna treat Raicharan?
(a) With indifference.
(b) With fondness and condescension.
(c) With resentment.
(d) With anger.

12. What does Phailna say that Raicharan should receive?
(a) A room in the house.
(b) A prison sentence.
(c) A beating.
(d) A monthly pension.

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

14. What do the river's wavelets remind the boy of?
(a) A field of flowers.
(b) The tail of a horse.
(c) A slithering serpent.
(d) Mischievous children.

15. What does the postmaster do once he has recovered?
(a) He writes an application for transfer.
(b) He writes his will.
(c) He decides to arrange for better housing in the village.
(d) He has Ratan send a message to his friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What chapter is the narrator writing in "The Cabuliwallah"?

2. Where is Anukul a magistrate?

3. Who plays with Raicharan's son?

4. On what day of the week does Raicharan bring Phailna to Anukul?

5. Where do Mini and the narrator live?

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