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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Harish-Harry?
(a) Biju's co-worker at Brigitte's.
(b) Biju's boss at the Ghandi Cafe.
(c) Biju's co-worker at the Ghandi Cafe.
(d) Biju's boss at Brigitte's.

3. What is taken from the judge's house in chapter 1?
(a) His dog.
(b) Knives.
(c) Guns.
(d) Maps.

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

5. What does Biju misrepresent about himself in his letters to the cook?
(a) He claims to be doing better financially than he really is.
(b) He claims to have integrated into American society.
(c) He claims to have a green card.
(d) He claims to be helping others from his village.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Noni sometimes jealous of Lola?

3. What do Gyan and Sai learn is in common about their backgrounds?

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

5. In what types of places does Biju work?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter 29, how does Gyan begin to view Sai?

2. What does the first chapter reveal about the social structures that exist between the introductory characters?

3. What effect does Saeed Saeed have on Biju in chapter 14?

4. How does Sai's having attended a Catholic school impact her identity in terms of the people around her?

5. In chapter 3, why doesn't Bijou consider himself a man?

6. In chapter 19, why does the author have both the cook and Lola experience difficulty communicating with a loved-one abroad?

7. In chapter 9, in what way is Lola portrayed as a hypocrite?

8. Why is the judge so critical of Gyan in chapter 18?

9. In chapter 21, how do Noni and Lola's views of the Nepalese liberation movement differ?

10. In chapter 22, what does it tell us about Biju when he leaves his job at Brigitte's and begins working at the Ghandi Cafe?

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