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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 did Kersi learn to do with his best friend, Viraf?
2. What do the boys tease Jaakaylee about when she comes to collect the boys in her charge?
3. Why is it that Khorshedbai does not get rid of her noisy bangles in "The Paying Guests?"
4. What are Bhagwan Baba's words of advice?
5. What does Mamajii always try to give Kersi to eat?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Nariman like to use big, new words when telling his stories to the boys?
2. What problem does Boman have with taking Mr Karani's advice to not take in paying guests?
3. How does Daddy react when Kersi puts down the tweezers and goes to read to comics?
4. How did the relationship between Boman and Kasmira and the paying guests begin?
5. Why is it that Khorshedbai's husband, Ardesar, does not question his wife's disgusting actions against the landlord?
6. What is an example of Kersi holding back his true feelings?
7. In "Exercisers," how does Jehangir feel about the boys who have come to college from the co-educational schools?
8. In "Of White Hairs and Cricket," why does Daddy have Kersi pulling the white hairs out of his head?
9. How does Jehangir explain to the boys the manner in which Nariman tells his stories?
10. Why does Daddy stop taking the boys to play cricket at maidaan?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
What is the general tone of the story, "Of White Hairs and Cricket?" How does the author convey this tone and why?
Essay Topic 3
Within the story, "Swimming Lessons," Father tells Mother not to confuse fact with fiction or vice versa. What is his point? How does madness become a result of this?
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