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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. Who built the judge's house?
(a) An American.
(b) A Scotsman.
(c) An Indian.
(d) An African.

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

3. What was the job of the judge's father?
(a) A defense attorney.
(b) An expert witness in court cases.
(c) Finding false witnesses to appear in court.
(d) A litigator.

4. What does Sai tell the cook after accepting Gyan's apology?
(a) That she is in love with Gyan.
(b) That she plans to try to change herself for Gyan.
(c) That she plans to try to change Gyan.
(d) That Gyan is not very intelligent.

5. What is the GNLF?
(a) The radical youth wing fighting for their own homeland.
(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 to rule over India.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his second year abroad, why does the wife of Biju's boss give him toiletries?

2. After Gyan and Sai's first meeting, why does the cook think it strange that Gyan is Nepalese?

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

4. What does the cook sell to supplement his income?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Jemu's reaction to his wife's going through his things in chapter 28 so severe that he rapes her?

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

4. In chapter 10, why do you think Biju is the only immigrant he knows who seriously considers returning home one day?

5. In chapter 5, what is the symbolism of the two-level restaurants with basement kitchens where Biju works?

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

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

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

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

10. How are the romance and the civil unrest in chapter 20 presented in a similar way?

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