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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. Why do Boman and Kashmira decide they need the entire flat back for themselves?
(a) Korshedbai becomes unpredictable.
(b) They want their privacy and the veranda.
(c) They no longer need the money.
(d) Kashmira becomes pregnant.

2. What is Jehangir tempted to do when he hides in the hedges of the playground to watch the exercisers after having seen Bhagwan Baba?
(a) Step out and laugh at the men.
(b) Exercise with the men.
(c) Run away with Behroze.
(d) Leave home.

3. What plan does Boman have to evict the paying guests?
(a) None.
(b) Non-payment of rent.
(c) A lawsuit.
(d) Photographs.

4. What infection does Kersi suffer the last night before his flight to Toronto?
(a) Conjunctivitis.
(b) A viral infection.
(c) Sinusitis.
(d) The flu.

5. What does Najamai from C Block stop by to tell Kashmira at times?
(a) The elderly couple are not Parsis.
(b) She wants the elderly couple evicted.
(c) About the droppings at her door.
(d) Rumors about Kordshedbai.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Bhagwan Baba's words of advice?

2. At the end of "Squatter," what tale does Nariman agree to tell the next time?

3. What words does Kersi have trouble expressing?

4. What about Jenhangir's mother embarrasses him when he introduces her to his girlfriend?

5. Why is it that Khorshedbai does not get rid of her noisy bangles in "The Paying Guests?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it Jehangir's doing that he and his parents are going to visit Bhagwan Baba for advice on his new girlfriend?

2. Why does Nariman like to use big, new words when telling his stories to the boys?

3. How does Jehangir explain to the boys the manner in which Nariman tells his stories?

4. What do Jehangir's mother and Behroze, two very different women, have in common?

5. How does Najamai turn out to be responsible for changing the neighbors' decision not to testify against the paying guests?

6. Why is it that Khorshedbai's husband, Ardesar, does not question his wife's disgusting actions against the landlord?

7. How did the relationship between Boman and Kasmira and the paying guests begin?

8. In "Of White Hairs and Cricket," why does Daddy have Kersi pulling the white hairs out of his head?

9. What does Sarosh's troubles in Toronto really reflect upon?

10. In "Exercisers," how does Jehangir feel about the boys who have come to college from the co-educational schools?

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