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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Shabanu and her family use to keep the fighting camels apart?

2. Where does Shabanu keep the spending money Dadi gives her for the fair?

3. Who are the tribesmen that Dadi and Shabanu encounter on their journey looking for?

4. Where are the expensive fighting and dancing camels often sent?

5. What does Auntie give Shabanu before her journey with Dadi?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Gudu Barrage?

2. What happens when a group of Bugtis tribesmen stop the caravan Dadi and Shabanu are traveling with to the Sibi Fair?

3. What upsets Shabanu at the end of the first day of their trip to Sibi?

4. How does Dadi make it up to Shabanu for discussing selling Guluband?

5. How does Shabanu feel about her future after Dadi comforts her?

6. Why does Mama worry about Shabanu's future?

7. What way to they devise to feed the orphan camel after the other mother camels reject it?

8. What do the men traveling to the fair talk about as they sit by the fire with Dadi?

9. Why is Shanbanu's father mad about the loss of the mother camel at first?

10. What does Shabanu encounter when she hears a camel in distress while tending the herd?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Shabanu worthy of the origin of her name: a princess? Discuss the character of Shabanu and how she changed and matured by the end of the novel. Did she have a regal spirit and was her spirit broken by the end of the story?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the relationships between fathers and daughters was portrayed in the novel. Contrast this with the relationship between mothers and daughters in Shabanu.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of women's worth, both in terms of the setting of the novel and universally.

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