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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. According to what Mini was told, what animal makes it rain?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Elephant.
(c) Heron.
(d) Whale.

2. What had Raicharan recently made for the boy?
(a) A little house made of twigs.
(b) A go-cart made of flowers.
(c) A mouse made of clay.
(d) A human figure made of grass.

3. What does Mini think the Cabuliwallah's bag contains?
(a) Magic.
(b) Children.
(c) Crows.
(d) Almonds.

4. What is Mini wearing when Rahman sees her on her wedding day?
(a) Yellow saree.
(b) Red silk.
(c) Blue cotton.
(d) White dress.

5. In what way is Raicharan's boy similar to the missing child?
(a) His eyes.
(b) His appetite.
(c) His hands.
(d) His behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raicharan blame for the boy's disappearance?

2. In "The Child's Return," what service does the master's boy enter after college?

3. Who has Rahman assaulted?

4. Where is Anukul a magistrate?

5. How does Rahman appear different when he arrives in the narrator's study on the day of the wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mini initially react to Rahman?

2. What does Anukul buy for his son?

3. What does the boy want at the side of the river?

4. What does the postmaster think about as he is leaving?

5. What is the rainy season like?

6. How does Mini's mother feel about Rahman?

7. How is Mini's personality initially described?

8. How do the missing boy's parents react?

9. How does Raicharan lose the boy?

10. What is the narrator's first impression of Rahman?

(see the answer keys)

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