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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 does Jaakaylee give up doing on Fridays to help discourage the ghost from visiting?
(a) Walking up the steps.
(b) Trying to become a vegetarian.
(c) Sleeping outside.
(d) Eating fish.

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

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

4. What new game does Pesi invent in Firozsha Baag?
(a) Stoning-the-cats.
(b) Chase-the-dog.
(c) Spit-in-the-yard.
(d) Catch-a-rat.

5. Why does Dr. Mody earn the respect of the people of the Baag?
(a) He deals well with management issues.
(b) He keeps Pesi in line.
(c) He gets all a rent decrease.
(d) He keeps the cats in the yard safe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Mody do to Pesi when he catches him being mean to Jehangir?

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

3. Who is Vera?

4. What did Daulat's grandmother's death inadvertently introduce to several boys in the Baag?

5. Which special day means a lot to Mehroo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Mody feel about Jehangir's visits to her home on Sunday mornings?

2. How is it insinuated in "Auspicious Occasion" that Mehroo's parents might have made a better choice for her than marrying her off to Rustomji?

3. Why, when the Firozsha Baag gets a new paint job, is the exterior of every flat painted except Rustomji's?

4. Why does the author, Mistry, go to the trouble to list all of the sounds Silloo hears Najamai making in the apartment above hers when she returns home on Sunday night?

5. Before Najamai purchased her fridge, how did Tehmina acquire the ice she needed?

6. What leads Tehmina to believe that Francis is much stronger than his slight body build shows?

7. How does Silloo reason away her free use of Naramjai's fridge?

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

9. What do Kersi's parents think of the friendship between Kersi and Francis?

10. How does Daulat feel about her neighbor, Nasjamai?

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