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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. At what time would Radha's father take him out every day for cricket practice when he was four years old, according to the narrator in the beginning of the novel?
(a) 5:30.
(b) 6:30.
(c) 7:30.
(d) 8:30.

2. Whom does Mohan make a call to regarding the status of a piece of ancestral land in his village in Part One?
(a) Bal Thackeray.
(b) Alur.
(c) Ramnath.
(d) Tommy Sir.

3. When did Tommy Sir get married?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1982.

4. Who is described as "the face" of cricket in Part One?
(a) Eknath Solkar.
(b) Javed Ansari.
(c) Ravi Shastri.
(d) Dhobi Talao.

5. Whom does Srinivas describe discovering as a cricket player for India when he meets the cricketers practicing with Manju in Part One?
(a) Dhobi Talao.
(b) Bal Thackeray.
(c) B.B. Balasubramaniam.
(d) Ravi Shastri.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Pramod describe the younger Kumar batting today in a cricket game when talking to Tommy Sir in Part One?

2. Who is the girl who is described as the "spotty-necked one" at Manju's school?

3. When Radha and Manju take a yearly visit to their home village from Mumbai, where do they get off the train, according to the narrator in Part One?

4. Who is Mohan's new landlord after they leave the slum for a better neighborhood?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mohan Kumar described in the narrative?

2. How is Sofia's character described in the novel?

3. What is the significance of the show "Young Lions" in the novel?

4. Who is Anand Mehta, and what is his role in the novel?

5. Where does the Kumar family move when they leave Dahisar? Why?

6. How does Radha respond to Manju's scholarship from Karim Ali? Why?

7. What happened to Manju and Radha's mother?

8. What scholarship does Manju received from Karim Ali in Part One? How does he respond?

9. What causes the growing rift between Radha and Manju in the second section of Part One?

10. Why does the narrator describe Mohan beating Manju in the Prologue?

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