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

2. What is Mrs. Savukshaw's secret?
(a) Her chicken-dhansaak.
(b) Her hunting techniques.
(c) Savukshaw's strength.
(d) Her fried fish.

3. What does one man in line to see Bhagwan Baba tell the others most definitely signifies something?
(a) The bench-swing on the veranda.
(b) When the sun goes down.
(c) When Bhagwan Baba removes his sunglasses.
(d) Bhagwan Bab's white pyjamas.

4. Why does Kashmira make a comment about a pretty foreign stamp on Khorshedbai's letter?
(a) For a clue as to who the writer is.
(b) To see if Khorshedbai is going to travel.
(c) She collects stamps and wants it.
(d) To discover how wealthy the woman might be.

5. What group does Jehangir join in college where he feels like a gatecrasher at an exclusive party?
(a) Swim Team.
(b) Fraternity.
(c) Choir.
(d) Debate Team.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarosh have trouble doing?

2. What plan does Boman have to evict the paying guests?

3. Who gives Kordshedbai a gift in the night, according to the dream she has?

4. What does Boman do to encourage helpful advice from Rustomji?

5. Who is the narrator of "Lend Me Your Light?"

Short Essay Questions

1. For most of her life, Khorshedbai has an image in her mind of a flock of crows. What is this image?

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

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

4. How does Kersi's family hide the crumbling walls in the apartment?

5. In the story, "Squatter," how do the boys in the Firozsha Baag know when Nariman is about to tell them a story?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Jehangir explain the meaning of the stories of Savukshaw to Nariman and the boys?

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