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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is autumn described by the narrator?
(a) As being the best weather in which to write.
(b) As being the most melancholic of seasons.
(c) As being a time to think on one's blessings.
(d) As being the time of year when kings once went forth to conquest.

2. Where is the postmaster from?
(a) Delhi.
(b) Calcutta.
(c) Mumbai.
(d) Jaipur.

3. Who has Rahman assaulted?
(a) The man at the almond stand.
(b) The neighbor's father-in-law.
(c) Another peddler, who he had caught stealing from him.
(d) A neighbor said to owe him money.

4. What does Ratan do for the postmaster in the evening?
(a) Bring him his fish.
(b) Write the letters he dictates.
(c) Wash his suit.
(d) Light his pipe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rahman carry as a reminder of his daughter?

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

3. What does the baby call Raicharan, in "The Child's Return,"?

4. What does the boy do by the river?

5. What does the postmaster tell Ratan about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Raicharan react to the birth of his son?

2. How does Raicharan lose the boy?

3. What is Raicharan's first reaction when the go-cart is empty?

4. How does Raicharan's situation change when Anukul gets married?

5. What writing is the narrator working on?

6. What do the students at Phailna's hostel think of Raicharan?

7. What is the rainy season like?

8. What do Ratan and the postmaster talk about?

9. What do Rahman and Mini do together?

10. What amazes Raicharan about the baby?

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