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

2. What does Tehmina think the Boyces do to Najamai?
(a) Help her whenever possible.
(b) Offer her their fridge to use.
(c) Take advantage of her generosity.
(d) Rob her flat.

3. What religion does Jaakaylee follow?
(a) She is Catholic.
(b) She is Hindu.
(c) She is Muslim.
(d) She is Parsi.

4. What does Dr. Mody tell Jehangir's mother to do on Sunday morning?
(a) Pray.
(b) Send Jehangir to his house.
(c) Get Jehangir a new story book.
(d) Send Jehangir outside to play.

5. What does Mehroo do at the entrance of her home to honor the holiday?
(a) Light a candle.
(b) Put out a religious figure.
(c) Make chalk designs.
(d) Plant colorful flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jaakaylee leave her hometown to come to Bombay?

2. What new game does Pesi invent in Firozsha Baag?

3. What is Daulat anxiously expecting every time her doorbell rings?

4. Who cries out, "Help! Oh quickly! Thief!"?

5. What music passes through Daulat's mind as she remembers going to a concert with Minocher?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What specially-made recording does Daulat imagine she would have made for Nasjamai if she had the tape recorder?

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

5. What is life like for an ayah?

6. In "One Sunday," what does Tehmina think of the Boyce's use of Najamai's fridge?

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

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

9. 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?

10. Why is Dr. Mody so disappointed in his son, Pesi, in "The Collectors?"

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