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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23 | Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During their tutoring sessions, what does Sai tell Noni she wants to do?
(a) Earn a good living.
(b) Travel.
(c) Move to America.
(d) Marry well.

2. Why isn't Biju permitted to apply for a green card?
(a) He is unemployed.
(b) There are too many Indians who want one.
(c) He has no permanent address.
(d) He has not lived there long enough.

3. Who approaches the judge's house at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Sai's tutor.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) A homeless beggar.
(d) A young Nepalese men.

4. How do Biju and Saeed Saeed feel about each other when they first meet?
(a) They dislike each other because of their different backgrounds.
(b) They dislike each other in spite of their common backgrounds.
(c) They like each other because of their common backgrounds.
(d) They like each other in spite of their different backgrounds.

5. What do many of the people from Bengal begin to desire?
(a) To return to India and have their own state.
(b) To have the Indians removed from Bengal.
(c) To go to America.
(d) To become the ruling class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sai's reaction upon watching the police strip the cook of his pride?

2. How does Sai and Gyan's relationship change as they spend more time together?

3. What type of food does Biju deliver?

4. What effect did the judge's friend Bose have on him when he was living in England?

5. What did Sai's father aspire to become prior to his death?

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