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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 does Jaakaylee begin to mend while waiting for bai-seth to return home?

2. Why does Jaakaylee sleep outside the flat after the Christmas midnight mass?

3. Why does Jaakaylee ring the doorbell after the midnight mass?

4. What does Dr. Mody tell Jehangir's mother to do on Sunday morning?

5. How is Jehangir physically different from Pesi?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is life like for an ayah?

4. What stops the neighborhood children from making fun of Jaakaylee's visions of a ghost?

5. What do Kersi's parents think of the friendship between Kersi and Francis?

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

7. How does Silloo reason away her free use of Naramjai's fridge?

8. Why does Daulat refuse a gift of a portable tape recorder from her nephew Sarosh?

9. 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?

10. In "Condolence Visit," why is it that Daulat is not looking forward to the visits she will receive?

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

In "The Paying Guests," how does Khorshedbai prove that "...no one will peck me to pieces?" Why does she use this metaphor to explain her anguished response to being pushed around?

Essay Topic 3

What does the murder of Navjeet symbolize to Percy, Kersi and Jamshed, respectively?

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