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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the GNLF?
(a) The radical youth wing fighting for the right to emigrate to America.
(b) The radical youth wing fighting to rule over India.
(c) The radical youth wing fighting for their own homeland.
(d) The radical youth wing fighting to have the Indians removed from Bengal.

2. Why was the judge able to marry a woman from a higher caste?
(a) The judge was a member of the ICS.
(b) The judge hid his true identity.
(c) His wife was not desirable to men from her own caste.
(d) The judge paid off her father.

3. What happened between the judge and his wife after these initial problems?
(a) Their relationship worsened.
(b) He became more understanding and their relationship improved.
(c) She became more understanding and their relationship improved.
(d) They both became more understanding and their relationship improved.

4. Where in New York is Brigitte's restaurant located?
(a) The Lower East Side.
(b) Midtown Manhattan.
(c) The Upper West Side.
(d) The Financial District.

5. What percent of the Indian population are Gorkhas?
(a) Fifty percent.
(b) Ninety percent.
(c) Eighty percent.
(d) Twenty percent.

6. Who does Sai wait for at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Her math tutor.
(b) Her English tutor.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) The cook.

7. How does Sai react when Gyan apologizes for what he said to her about Christmas?
(a) She refuses to forgive him.
(b) She forgives him.
(c) She accuses him of being jealous of her wealth.
(d) She accuses him of being angry because he wasn't invited.

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

9. What is Sai's reaction upon watching the police strip the cook of his pride?
(a) Rage.
(b) Embarrassment.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Scorn.

10. What request does the cook repeatedly make of Bijou?
(a) That he help others from his village who come to America.
(b) That he send the cook more money.
(c) That he bring the cook to America.
(d) That he return to India.

11. What does Noni believe about the Nepalese?
(a) They should have their own homeland.
(b) They are dangerous because there are so many of them.
(c) They should be reduced to servitude.
(d) They should be expelled from India.

12. Why is Biju fired from his delivery job?
(a) The food arrives cold.
(b) He is rude to the customers.
(c) He hurts his leg and can no longer ride his delivery bike.
(d) His delivery bike is stolen.

13. Why wasn't Gyan hired for the job in Calcutta?
(a) He is a Gorkha.
(b) He couldn't afford decent clothes for the interview.
(c) The interviewer didn't like his accent.
(d) He was unqualified.

14. When the judge returned from England for the first time, how did his family react to him?
(a) They were doubting and suspicious.
(b) They were nosy and judgmental.
(c) They were happy and welcoming.
(d) They were jealous and resentful.

15. Why don't Lola and Noni trust their watchman?
(a) He has stolen from them.
(b) He is a former prison inmate.
(c) He is Nepali.
(d) He is Pakistani.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Biju take a job at the Ghandi Cafe?

2. How does Sai respond to Gyan's accusations about her being a copycat?

3. What does Gyan mean when he calls Sai a copycat?

4. What is Lola's daughter Pixie's job?

5. In what types of places does Biju work?

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