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

2. What does Sai serve to the judge at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Lunch.
(c) Dinner.
(d) Tea.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Harry-Harish and his family live?

2. How does Gyan describe Sai and her father to his friends in Thapa's Canteen?

3. What percent of the Indian population are Gorkhas?

4. Who is Harish-Harry?

5. What do Saeed's in-laws encourage him to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In chapter 4, why do Sai and the cook justify the manner in which the police treated the cook?

4. How is the judge's house like the judge himself?

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

6. In chapter 24, how does Harish-Harry's comments about his workers contrast with the way he treats them?

7. In chapter 23, what do Sai and Gyan discover they have in common?

8. What is the significance of the elaborate Christmas celebration in chapter 25?

9. In chapter 26, why does Gyan begin regretting the time he spent with Sai as he becomes part of the liberation?

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

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