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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. in "Lend Me Your Light," what do tiffin carriers deliver to the school?

2. What are Bhagwan Baba's words of advice?

3. What did Kersi learn to do with his best friend, Viraf?

4. What group does Jehangir join in college where he feels like a gatecrasher at an exclusive party?

5. What does one man in line to see Bhagwan Baba tell the others most definitely signifies something?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What problem does Boman have with taking Mr Karani's advice to not take in paying guests?

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

4. What are Percy's and the others' feelings when Jamshed returns to visit Bombay and takes them to an expensive restaurant?

5. In "Exercisers," how does Jehangir feel about the boys who have come to college from the co-educational schools?

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

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

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

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

10. In "The Paying Guests," why does Khorshedbai feel she is justified in leaving garbage spread around the veranda?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the two couples from "The Paying Guest." Delve into their personalities and main characteristics.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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