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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Francis's job in Firozsha Baag?
(a) He does odd jobs.
(b) He is the doorman.
(c) He collects the garbage.
(d) He is the elevator operator.

2. What does Jaakaylee want the bai to purchase in order to make life easier?
(a) A video machine.
(b) A masala machine.
(c) A vacuum cleaner.
(d) A motorcar.

3. Where does Jaakaylee come from?
(a) Goa.
(b) Persia.
(c) England.
(d) India.

4. What is Dr. Mody's favorite activity?
(a) Listening to Mozart.
(b) Reading Shakespeare.
(c) Stamp collecting.
(d) Playing violin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kersi do his cricket bat at the end of the story, "One Sunday?"

2. Where had Tehmina once have to go to get ice before Najamai purchased a fridge?

3. Who has a long white beard, has a paunch and is nearly seventy-five years old?

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

5. Who finally believes that Jaakaylee sees a bhoot?

Short Essay Questions

1. What stops the neighborhood children from making fun of Jaakaylee's visions of a ghost?

2. In "The Ghost of Firozsha Baag," how does Jacqueline's name get changed to Jaakaylee?

3. Why are Mehroo and Rustomji happy when Tanoo decides to leave them in order to live with her sister's family in a small village?

4. Why does Jehangir get involved with Eric?

5. When Daulat wishes she had accepted Sarosh's gift of a portable tape recorder, what does she think she could have used it for?

6. What makes Rustomji decide that he can go to the front of a very long line of people waiting for the A-1 bus?

7. When and why does the bhoot stop the visits to Jaakaylee?

8. What are Rustomji's feelings toward their gunga, Gajra?

9. In "Condolence Visit," why is it that Daulat is not looking forward to the visits she will receive?

10. What is life like for an ayah?

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