2. 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?

3. How does Mrs. Mody feel about Jehangir's visits to her home on Sunday mornings?

4. Before Najamai purchased her fridge, how did Tehmina acquire the ice she needed?

5. What drives Dr. Mody to slap Pesi in front of the boy of Firozsha Baag at play?

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

7. When Daulat wishes she had accepted Sarosh's gift of a portable tape recorder, what does she think she could have used it for?

8. When and why does the bhoot stop the visits to Jaakaylee?

9. What leads Tehmina to believe that Francis is much stronger than his slight body build shows?

10. Why does Jehangir get involved with Eric?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the general tone of the story, "Of White Hairs and Cricket?" How does the author convey this tone and why?

Essay Topic 2

How is "Squatter" considered to be a story-within-a-story? What are the elements of this story that belie its complexities?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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