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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What volunteer organization does Rustomji have good remembrances of?
2. How old is Jaakaylee?
3. What did Minocher wear to Sarosh-Sid's wedding when the groom did not wish to wear it?
4. What does Kersi do his cricket bat at the end of the story, "One Sunday?"
5. What does Daulat discover between the bedpost and the floor as she sprays for bedbugs?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What makes Rustomji decide that he can go to the front of a very long line of people waiting for the A-1 bus?
3. Why does Jehangir get involved with Eric?
4. What specially-made recording does Daulat imagine she would have made for Nasjamai if she had the tape recorder?
5. Why, when the Firozsha Baag gets a new paint job, is the exterior of every flat painted except Rustomji's?
6. What stops the neighborhood children from making fun of Jaakaylee's visions of a ghost?
7. Why does Dr. Mody become close with Jehangir, treating him like a son?
8. What does Daulat do to disobey the usual custom after one's spouse dies?
9. When Daulat wishes she had accepted Sarosh's gift of a portable tape recorder, what does she think she could have used it for?
10. Why is Behram roje such an important date for Mehroo?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
By the end of "The Collectors," Dr. Mody's stamps lay in a trunk under Jehangir's bed, being eaten and destroyed by cockroaches and vermin. What does the trunk full of worthless stamps symbolize? Why does Jehangir feel a sense of relief at the discovery of the stamps' demise?
Essay Topic 2
Throughout the book, the author has characters which overlap in the stories. What is the main theme that is embedded within all of the stories? Does the main theme encourage the reader to care about the characters in the Firozsha Baag?
Essay Topic 3
In what ways are Mehroo and her husband, Rustomji, different from one another? Cite examples that show these differences and explore their personality traits.
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