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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Benare say is Kashikar's job?
(a) He is a social worker.
(b) He is a lawyer.
(c) He is a scientist.
(d) He is a teacher.

2. What does Benare say, in Act One, about her teaching?
(a) She does it for the money.
(b) It is very hard work.
(c) No one can find fault with it.
(d) She has difficult students.

3. What does Benare lie about, in Act One?
(a) Meeting Damle.
(b) Buying garlands.
(c) Smoking cigarettes.
(d) Chewing pan.

4. What does Kashikar say Benare's charge is?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Infanticide.
(c) Producing atomic weapons.
(d) Contempt of court.

5. What is Samant carrying in his hands when he enters in Act One?
(a) A lock and key, toy parrot, and a book.
(b) A lock and key.
(c) A book.
(d) A toy parrot made of green cloth.

6. How does Ponkshe react to Benare's offer to do something for the others in Act one?
(a) He asks her to sit down.
(b) He sticks his fingers in his ears.
(c) He is annoyed.
(d) He encourages her to continue.

7. What role do the characters argue about in Act One?
(a) The fourth witness.
(b) The lawyers.
(c) The judge.
(d) The accused.

8. What does Mrs. Kashikar ask Rokde about in Act One?
(a) The luggage.
(b) Kashikar's judge's wig.
(c) Sukhatme's lawyer's gown.
(d) Ponkshe's pipe.

9. About what is the song that Benare sings in English in Act one?
(a) Waves crashing on a shore.
(b) A man who wants to marry her.
(c) An inscription she wrote on the first page of every book.
(d) A parrot, a sparrow, and a crow.

10. What is Benare's response when Sukhatme sarcastically compliments her singing?
(a) She stands up.
(b) She leaves the room.
(c) She claps her hands.
(d) She sticks her tongue out at him.

11. Why does Rokde say Rawte is missing, too, in Act One?
(a) He missed the train.
(b) He is teaching late at the university.
(c) He is buying garlands for his wife's hair.
(d) He is sick with flu.

12. In Act One, how does Benare express that she likes Samant?
(a) She sticks her tongue out at him.
(b) She forgets his name.
(c) She moves away from him.
(d) She stands closely to him.

13. How does Benare react when Ponkshe tells her she has been accused?
(a) She stiffens.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She cries.
(d) She leaves the room.

14. Who does Rokde say has not arrived yet, in Act One?
(a) Damle.
(b) Kashikar.
(c) Sukhatme.
(d) Ponkshe.

15. Where does Samant go when he leaves the stage momentarily toward the end of Act One?
(a) To get the Bhagavad Gita.
(b) To buy cigarettes and pan.
(c) To pick up Damle.
(d) To use the bathroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act one, what type of show does Benare say will be staged in the meeting hall that night?

2. How does Benare react to her charge?

3. How does Samant respond to Benare's calling him "lovely"?

4. How does Benare describe Samant's character in Act One?

5. What does Mrs. Kashikar like about having an imaginary case?

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