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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens to Father Booty six months after the library visit?
2. What types of books do Lola and Noni borrow?
3. What is Biju wearing as he approaches his father's house?
4. On his way to the important protest, what observation does the cook make about the GNLF?
5. What do the rebels do to Lola and Noni?
Short Essay Questions
1. In chapter 38, could Lola and Noni have prevented the village community from shunning them if they hadn't flaunted their wealth all their lives?
2. In chapter 36, what does the author convey by the bad connection on the phone line between Biju and his father?
3. Would the judge's character be different if his father had not sent him away to school?
4. In chapter 30, what does Harish-Harry tell Biju that illustrates how naive he is about the situation of the illegal immigrants who work for him?
5. What does the judge's reaction to Mutt's disappearance in chapter 46 reveal about his character?
6. In chapter 40, how does the judge's refusal to help the drunkard's family highlight his thinking only of himself?
7. As revealed in chapter 32, what role did Bose play in transforming the judge's identity?
8. Is the judge justified for blaming the cook for Mutt's disappearance in chapter 51?
9. Are the characters searching for Mutt in chapter 49 all actually searching for someone else? If so, for whom are they searching?
10. In chapter 30, why does the cook suddenly begin having superstitious fears for Biju's life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think the novel is entitled The Inheritance of Loss? Which characters in the book have suffered losses? Do you think "inheritance" refers strictly to losses carried over from the characters' ancestors, or are the losses inherited from some larger truth or influence?
Essay Topic 2
Do Sai and Gyan's recognition of a common ancestral connection to the British bring them closer together, push them farther apart, or do both at different times? Are these similarities equally important to Sai and Gyan? Why are their connections to the British so important, so troublesome, or both?
Essay Topic 3
When Biju is scammed into paying to travel to Kathmandu for a training session, he witnesses a butcher calling a goat by the worst swear words imaginable before killing it. How do the butcher's actions symbolize those of the scammers? In what way is the scam itself complicated and ritualized, and how is the end result the same for Biju as it is for the goat? Why do you think the author chose a goat, as opposed to another type of animal?
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