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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 60 - 135.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Part One of the novel open?
(a) Two years before Selection Day.
(b) Three years before Selection Day.
(c) Three weeks before Selection Day.
(d) Three months before Selection Day.

2. When Manju, Radha, and their father reach the MIG Cricket Club in Part One, they are told that Tommy Sir does not arrive before what time?
(a) 11:00.
(b) 9:00.
(c) 8:00.
(d) 10:00.

3. What is the mother tongue for Manju and Radha?
(a) Kannada.
(b) Kattale.
(c) Bindi.
(d) Offal.

4. Who is described in Part One as the "father of modern education in the suburb of Bandra"?
(a) Eknath Solkar.
(b) Karim Ali.
(c) Anand Mehta.
(d) Ravi Shastri.

5. Tommy Sir tells Pramod in Part One of Manju, "Pramod, the idea that the boy has to be either real or a fake is" what?
(a) "A very standard belief."
(b) "An arbitrary belief in chance."
(c) "A very Western piece of logic."
(d) "A very Easter piece of logic."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as "the face" of cricket in Part One?

2. What instrument does the legless man play at the train station, according to the narrator in Part One?

3. How many varieties of truth exist, according to Tommy Sir in Part One?

4. What river is described in Part One as "a rock-filled sewer, lit up by egrets and the flutter of a paddy-bird returning to its nest of twigs"?

5. How old does Tommy Sir say he was when he began working on a history of the Maratha campaign at the third battle of Panipat in Part One?

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