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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What group of men does Gyan join after the New Year?
(a) The Indian Army.
(b) The British Army.
(c) The Gorkha Liberation Army.
(d) The Nepalese Liberation Army.

3. Who is sent to the police station after the judge is robbed?
(a) The cook.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) Sai.
(d) The cook's son.

4. How do Lola and Noni feel about Sai's relationship with the cook?
(a) They disapprove because he is beneath her.
(b) They disapprove because they dislike him.
(c) They approve because he is a replacement child for her.
(d) They approve because he is a father figure to her.

5. What effect does her first meeting with Gyan have on Sai?
(a) She finds him unattractive.
(b) It inspires her to work harder at her studies.
(c) She dislikes him.
(d) It makes her see herself as a woman.

6. What do Saeed's in-laws encourage him to do?
(a) Work for them.
(b) Have children.
(c) Divorce their daughter.
(d) Emigrate.

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

8. What effect does the rainy season have on the cook?
(a) His letters from Biju are wet and illegible.
(b) He has to walk through mud to the market.
(c) His food supply is poisoned by the insect spray.
(d) His food supplies are limited.

9. 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.

10. What does Biju realize about Harry-Harish's two names?
(a) It is an attempt to make himself sound loftier than his employees.
(b) It is his way of standing out.
(c) It is the result of his having one Indian parent and one American parent.
(d) It is an attempt to live in two worlds and please two sets of gods.

11. Who is Sai's second tutor?
(a) Lola.
(b) Gyan.
(c) Father Booty.
(d) Noni.

12. Into what caste was the judge's father born?
(a) The middle class.
(b) The wealthy caste.
(c) The peasant caste.
(d) Servitude.

13. What does Gyan mean when he calls Sai a copycat?
(a) That she is imitating Western culture.
(b) That she tries to be just like Lola and Noni.
(c) That she is a plagiarist.
(d) That she is trying to be just like Gyan.

14. After Gyan and Sai's first meeting, why does the cook think it strange that Gyan is Nepalese?
(a) He thinks the Nepalese aren't very attractive.
(b) He thinks the Nepalese aren't very intelligent.
(c) Gyan's accent did not sound Nepalese.
(d) Gyan's clothing did not look Nepalese.

15. How does Sai and Gyan's relationship change as they spend more time together?
(a) They spend more time talking about Sai's education.
(b) They start to fall in love.
(c) They resent one another.
(d) They are uncomfortable because they are from different classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the judge do to his wife when he first returned from England?

2. What is Gyan's response when the judge asks him what poets he admires?

3. What do the police examine at the cook's home?

4. During their tutoring sessions, what does Sai tell Noni she wants to do?

5. What does Gyan realize as soon as he leaves Sai after apologizing?

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