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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 is Percy's main interest in India?
(a) Learning the rules for emigration.
(b) Accumulating luxury goods.
(c) Charity work for farmers.
(d) The Taj-Mahal Hotel.

2. Which story about Savukshaw had Nariman wanted to tell for a long time?
(a) The hunter.
(b) The fisherman.
(c) The bicyclist.
(d) The pole vaulter.

3. What entrances Kersi?
(a) All spinning things.
(b) White hairs.
(c) Cricket.
(d) Tweezers.

4. What is Sukhi Sooraj?
(a) The only recording Korshedbai owns.
(b) An offering of incense.
(c) Pestonji's cage in Korshedbai's dreams.
(d) A Parsis holiday.

5. 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) Leave home.
(b) Exercise with the men.
(c) Run away with Behroze.
(d) Step out and laugh at the men.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Kersi's imagined morality play while watching a crowd in Bombay, what does the train represent?

2. What infection does Kersi suffer the last night before his flight to Toronto?

3. What was once Kashmira's devout ambition in life?

4. What does MCC stand for in the story Nariman tells?

5. What is Sarosh's tone when he promises at a party to return to Bombay in ten years if he is not fully Canadian by then?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Daddy react when Kersi puts down the tweezers and goes to read to comics?

2. Why does Kersi want to cry at the end of the story, "Of White Hairs and Cricket?"

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

4. What is Jehangir's status with the boys of Firozsha Baag by the time of the Squatter story?

5. In "Lend Me Your Light," why is Kersi's mother happy that Percy is friends with Jamshed?

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

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

8. What is an example of Kersi holding back his true feelings?

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

10. Why does Daddy stop taking the boys to play cricket at maidaan?

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