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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) Sleeping outside.
(b) Trying to become a vegetarian.
(c) Walking up the steps.
(d) Eating fish.

2. Why does Rustomji shout at the boys of Firozsha Baag?
(a) For getting plaster in his bathtub.
(b) For not fixing his toilet.
(c) For robbing apartments.
(d) For playing cricket there.

3. What is Gajra notorious for?
(a) Breaking dishes.
(b) Lying.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Tardiness.

4. Why are the children and adults in Firozsha Baag making fun of Jaakaylee?
(a) She walks with a limp.
(b) She claims to see a ghost.
(c) She is dark-skinned.
(d) She sleeps in the hallways.

5. In the story, "Auspicious Occasion," what does Rustomji do for a living?
(a) He is a businessman.
(b) He is a matchmaker.
(c) He is a banker.
(d) He is a lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jaakaylee consider herself to be an expert at?

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

3. Which special day means a lot to Mehroo?

4. What does Jaakaylee want the bai to purchase in order to make life easier?

5. What does Nasjamai offer to Daulat as a help after dusmoo?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Behram roje such an important date for Mehroo?

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

3. What is life like for an ayah?

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

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

6. Why does Dr. Mody assume that Jehangir stole the Spanish dancing-lady stamp?

7. Why does bai begin to treat Jaakaylee with more respect?

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

9. 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?

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

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