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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 Viraf's and Kersi's private signal sound like?
2. What does MCC stand for in the story Nariman tells?
3. Why are there so many calendars hanging in Kersi's house?
4. Why does Kersi go to Jamshed's house with Percy one day?
5. What happens to Navjeet by Percy's account?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Sarosh's troubles in Toronto really reflect upon?
2. What is it about Jamshed's letter to Kersi that disturbs Kersi so much?
3. What is Jehangir's status with the boys of Firozsha Baag by the time of the Squatter story?
4. In "Exercisers," how does Jehangir feel about the boys who have come to college from the co-educational schools?
5. Why does Nariman like to use big, new words when telling his stories to the boys?
6. How does Najamai turn out to be responsible for changing the neighbors' decision not to testify against the paying guests?
7. What is an example of Kersi holding back his true feelings?
8. In "The Paying Guests," why does Khorshedbai feel she is justified in leaving garbage spread around the veranda?
9. How did the relationship between Boman and Kasmira and the paying guests begin?
10. What are Percy's and the others' feelings when Jamshed returns to visit Bombay and takes them to an expensive restaurant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is Jehangir's interest in the exercisers on the nighttime playground? How does he relate this voyeurism to his youth?
Essay Topic 2
In the story, "Lend Me Your Light," Kersi wonders, "What would it take to light the lantern in (Jamshed's)...soul?" Explain the meaning of his musing.
Essay Topic 3
In the story "Of White Hairs and Cricket", the character, Kersi, has difficulty showing some of his emotions. What lesson is there to be learned by the reader by the end of the story? What does the author attempt to convey through Kersi's character?
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