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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. In "Of White Hairs and Cricket," what is Daddy always searching for in the newspaper ads?
(a) Apartments.
(b) A better job.
(c) New clothes.
(d) Sales on toasters.

2. What did Kersi learn to do with his best friend, Viraf?
(a) Read.
(b) Ride a bicycle.
(c) Play soccer.
(d) Pull out hairs.

3. What does Daddy make Kersi do for him every Sunday?
(a) Play cricket.
(b) Look for a job.
(c) Call for Viraf.
(d) Pull out his white hairs.

4. What are Daddy's tweezers compared to?
(a) A razor.
(b) A cricket bat.
(c) The needle in Virag's father.
(d) The kerosene going into the stove.

5. What happens to Navjeet by Percy's account?
(a) He returns to Bombay for good.
(b) He murders one of the money-lenders.
(c) He steals the seed money.
(d) He is murdered.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the children and adults in Firozsha Baag making fun of Jaakaylee?

2. Why would Tehmina curse anyone who passes in front of her early in the morning as she faces the rising sun?

3. Where does Jamshed eat lunch at one o'clock?

4. What does Kersi do that surprises Daddy?

5. What is a bhoot?

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