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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lend Me Your Light.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jaakaylee sleep outside the flat after the Christmas midnight mass?
(a) The weather is always pleasant.
(b) Everyone else does it.
(c) She has no key.
(d) It is a neighborhood custom.

2. In Kersi's imagined morality play while watching a crowd in Bombay, what does the train represent?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Vice.
(d) Reality.

3. What stops the ghost from visiting, according to Jaakaylee?
(a) The noises she makes to scare it.
(b) The cockroaches.
(c) Her confession to the priest.
(d) Cajetan.

4. Why are the children and adults in Firozsha Baag making fun of Jaakaylee?
(a) She sleeps in the hallways.
(b) She claims to see a ghost.
(c) She is dark-skinned.
(d) She walks with a limp.

5. What is a bhoot?
(a) One's mother.
(b) Christmas Eve.
(c) A ghost.
(d) French beans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kersi do that surprises Daddy?

2. In "Of White Hairs and Cricket," what is Daddy always searching for in the newspaper ads?

3. What is a ghaton?

4. Why does Kersi attend the Parsi New Year celebrations in Toronto?

5. Where does Father see the ghosts?

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