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

2. What does Najamai smell in her kitchen upon returning to it after the theft?
(a) Ammonia.
(b) Meat.
(c) Spilled perfume.
(d) Cloves.

3. In "Condolence Visit," what is Daulat's one fervent prayer?
(a) To tell her visitors how her husband died.
(b) For mourners to arrive after one month.
(c) For Minocher to die with dignity.
(d) That Minocher would receive a miracle cure.

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

5. What used to make Kersi very happy to go up to Najamai's flat?
(a) Chasing creatures.
(b) Seeing the fridge.
(c) The coolness of the fridge.
(d) Seeing Najamai's daughters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes a dream deferred for Minocher?

2. What does someone steal on Jehangir's behalf?

3. Who finally believes that Jaakaylee sees a bhoot?

4. What does Mrs. Mody offer to Jehangir after Dr Mody's death?

5. How does Daulat view Najamai?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Daulat do to disobey the usual custom after one's spouse dies?

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

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

8. 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?

9. Why does Daulat refuse a gift of a portable tape recorder from her nephew Sarosh?

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

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