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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 do the boys tease Jaakaylee about when she comes to collect the boys in her charge?

2. What becomes known throughout "Squatter" as Jehangir's nickname, given to him by Pesi?

3. What does Korshedbai end up taking from Kashmira?

4. Why does Kashmira make a comment about a pretty foreign stamp on Khorshedbai's letter?

5. What does Mr. Karani first tell Boman is the only remedy to Boman's paying guests problem?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it that Khorshedbai's husband, Ardesar, does not question his wife's disgusting actions against the landlord?

2. Why does Kersi want to cry at the end of the story, "Of White Hairs and Cricket?"

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

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

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

6. How does Najamai turn out to be responsible for changing the neighbors' decision not to testify against the paying guests?

7. Why does Kersi remember the word ghati with shame?

8. In "Of White Hairs and Cricket," why does Daddy have Kersi pulling the white hairs out of his head?

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

10. In "Lend Me Your Light," why is Kersi's mother happy that Percy is friends with Jamshed?

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

Considering the character, Naramjai in the story, "Condolence Visit," explain what her motives are for interfering with Daulat's grieving period.

Essay Topic 3

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

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