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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 does Joseph do on the 7th day he is employed?

2. Who does Lucy have imaginary conversations with?

3. What are the Smalleys the last survivors of?

4. What does Mrs. Bhoolabhoy call her husband?

5. Where did Tusker and Lucy live until 1949?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joseph do with the lawn mower? Why is this important? Who is he crossing?

2. What does it say about Tusker and Lucy's ability to communicate when neither of them acknowledges the new mali?

3. Why do Mr. Bhoolabhoy and Tusker get along? Why does Mr. Bhoolabhoy like Tusker? What does Tusker talk about that fascinates him so?

4. What do you think is Tusker's past concerning drinking and the police?

5. Why does it make Lucy sad when she listens to the old gramophone? Where are her feelings coming from?

6. Why does Tusker cry in the bathroom?

7. How do you think it made Ibrahim feel to never see the endings of the movies? What do you think his reaction was years later when he saw the endings in England?

8. Why does Lucy think she will be a widow in less than a year? What does she think about her future? Who does she blame?

9. Where is the Shiraz in relation to the Lodges and what effect does their location have on the Lodges?

10. Why does Lucy think that she cannot trust Tusker anymore? Is it clear to the reader what happened?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is it important that Tusker never got approval to marry Lucy? How did this affect his career?

Essay Topic 2

Why can Lucy no longer trust Tusker? What happened in their past that leaves Lucy feeling alone?

Essay Topic 3

The reader wonders from the beginning of the novel about Tusker's name. How did Tusker get his name? Describe the two different possible stories. Which story describes Tusker's character more fully? Which story tells us something that we would have never guessed about Tusker?

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