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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. In his second year abroad, why does the wife of Biju's boss give him toiletries?
(a) It is part of his room and board arrangement.
(b) He can't afford to buy them himself.
(c) She can get them very cheaply.
(d) She thinks he smells.

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

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

4. How were Sai's parents killed?
(a) In a riot.
(b) In a car accident.
(c) In a plane crash.
(d) As a form of capital punishment.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what types of places does Biju work?

3. How do Biju and Saeed Saeed feel about each other when they first meet?

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

5. What effect does her first meeting with Gyan have on Sai?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect does Gyan have on Sai when they first meet in chapter 13?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In chapter 17, when Biju and Saeed part ways, why does Biju vow never to let anyone get close to him again?

9. In chapter 8, why is Jemu so determined to reject his father's traditional Indian customs by refusing to throw the coconut overboard?

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

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