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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Percy want to return to Bombay when Kersi returns for a visit?
(a) He feels superior to his brother.
(b) Because Jamshed will be there.
(c) Because of the money issues.
(d) He is jealous of Kersi.

2. What does Khorshedbai place on the veranda every morning?
(a) Baked goods.
(b) Garbage.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Prayer books.

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

4. Where does Jamshed eat lunch at one o'clock?
(a) Outside in the play yard.
(b) In the school lunchroom.
(c) He goes home.
(d) In an air-conditioned car.

5. What does Mamajii always try to give Kersi to eat?
(a) Vitamins.
(b) Tasty, spicy snacks.
(c) Candy.
(d) Undercooked foods.

6. What does Nariman do to ensure that Jehangir will hear the rest of the Sarosh story?
(a) He promises to finish it the next day.
(b) He finishes the story quickly.
(c) He records it on a cassette tape.
(d) He goes to his apartment to tell it to him.

7. What does Sarosh have trouble doing?
(a) Playing cricket well.
(b) Hunting tigers.
(c) Using the toilet.
(d) Making money.

8. What finally happens to Sarosh on the plane flight back to India?
(a) He has an acute anxiety attack.
(b) He squats for a movement, as usual.
(c) He is ecstatic when the plane takes off.
(d) He has a movement, Canadian-style.

9. What does Viraf's and Kersi's private signal sound like?
(a) Finger-snapping.
(b) Knuckles cracking.
(c) A yodel.
(d) A bird song.

10. What infection does Kersi suffer the last night before his flight to Toronto?
(a) The flu.
(b) Sinusitis.
(c) Conjunctivitis.
(d) A viral infection.

11. Where is Kersi's favorite spot to be?
(a) His own flat.
(b) Viraf's third-floor balcony.
(c) The cricket field.
(d) Near Mamajii's spinning table.

12. What does Jehangir plan on telling Behroze when he visits her while her parents and Shanti are gone?
(a) They must get married.
(b) He loves her.
(c) The relationship must end.
(d) He dislikes her sarcasm.

13. Who is the narrator of "Of White Hairs and Cricket?"
(a) Pesi.
(b) Kersi.
(c) Percy.
(d) Daddy.

14. Where do Daddy and Kersi go at seven o'clock in the morning?
(a) Visit Viraf's father.
(b) To get chai at the Irani restaurant.
(c) To play cricket.
(d) To get a haircut.

15. Why is it that Khorshedbai does not get rid of her noisy bangles in "The Paying Guests?"
(a) They announce her presence.
(b) Not to offend Ardessar.
(c) For the money they are worth.
(d) The elegent look they give her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kersi do that surprises Daddy?

2. In Kersi's imagined morality play while watching a crowd in Bombay, what does the train represent?

3. Why is Viraf so distraught by the end of "Of White Hairs and Crickets?"

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

5. What plan does Boman have to evict the paying guests?

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