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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does someone steal on Jehangir's behalf?
(a) Pencils.
(b) Stamps.
(c) Chewing gum.
(d) Coins.

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

3. Who is the first character introduced in the story, "One Sunday?"
(a) Vera.
(b) Silloo.
(c) Dolly.
(d) Najamai.

4. What becomes a dream deferred for Minocher?
(a) Trying oxtail soup.
(b) Eating frog's legs.
(c) Drinking Ostermilk.
(d) Giving clothing to the poor.

5. Who has a long white beard, has a paunch and is nearly seventy-five years old?
(a) Daaruk Gupta.
(b) Fahad Singh.
(c) Dustoor Dhunjisha.
(d) Jaabir Malik.

6. What does Kersi read to cure himself of the blues?
(a) Enid Blyton books.
(b) Books of poetry.
(c) Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
(d) The Trilogy of the Rings.

7. What does Kersi use his cricket bat for now?
(a) Killing rats.
(b) Nothing at all.
(c) Punishing students.
(d) Practice.

8. What did Minocher wear to Sarosh-Sid's wedding when the groom did not wish to wear it?
(a) The pugree.
(b) Silk pajamas.
(c) A tuxedo.
(d) A top hat.

9. What music passes through Daulat's mind as she remembers going to a concert with Minocher?
(a) 1812 Overture.
(b) At the Balalaika.
(c) Fur Elise.
(d) Brahm'a Lullabye.

10. What does Dr. Burjor Mody assume principalship of in "The Collectors" just before moving to Firozsha Baag?
(a) Bombay High School.
(b) Bombay Veterinary College.
(c) Cawasji Framji Memorial Library
(d) St. Xavier's Boys School

11. What nickname for Rustomji comes as a result of something Nariman says?
(a) Cheapie Rustomji.
(b) Penny pincher.
(c) Rustomji-at-the-ready.
(d) Rustomji-the-curmudgeon.

12. Where had Tehmina once have to go to get ice before Najamai purchased a fridge?
(a) Tar Gully.
(b) Tar Creek.
(c) Ambica Saris.
(d) A Thai restaurant.

13. What is Kersi doing as Silloo divides her meat up for the freezer?
(a) Fixing Percy's bat.
(b) Listening to the radio.
(c) Playing cricket outside.
(d) Repairing a cricket bat.

14. Who is the foremost "flicker" amongst the schoolboys in "The Collectors"?
(a) Pesi.
(b) Eric.
(c) Patla.
(d) Jehangir.

15. What happens to Rustomji that angers him when he departs the A-1 bus?
(a) Someone spits tobacco juice on him.
(b) He discovers the leaky toilet water is still on him.
(c) He is put to the back of the line.
(d) The conductor yells at him for not going upstairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kersi intend to do after Francis runs off?

2. What volunteer organization does Rustomji have good remembrances of?

3. Why does Daulat become relieved with Moti's conversation during the condolence visit?

4. How is Jehangir physically different from Pesi?

5. Who are Patla Babu and Jhaaria Babu?

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