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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 is Maali trying to remember?
(a) How he died.
(b) Where he hid the negatives.
(c) Where he needs to go next.
(d) Who killed him.

2. What does Maali's Ear Check reveal?
(a) He is loved and missed.
(b) He has guilt, sorrow, and unpaid debts.
(c) He is sad, lonely, and bored.
(d) He is innocent, free, and forgiven.

3. Who did Maali take his negatives to?
(a) Dada.
(b) Amma.
(c) The police.
(d) A nerdy lad called Viran.

4. Who does Maali feel estranged with?
(a) Jaki.
(b) Amma.
(c) The spirits.
(d) Dada.

5. What does the Ear Check reveal?
(a) Maali was killed violently and killed someone.
(b) Maali can speak to ghosts.
(c) Maali can communicate to Jaki and DD.
(d) Maali is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Maari run into in the Afterlife?

2. Where does Maali recall telling his friends about the box?

3. What does the Crow Man tell Maali he must do?

4. What does Sena claim that Maali did to him?

5. Where are the pictures hidden?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Ranchagoda and Cassim visit Hotel Leo?

2. How does Maali ensure that his life actually had meaning?

3. What are the photo negatives symbolic of?

4. How does the experience on the rooftop impact Maali emotionally?

5. What do the photos reveal, and why is Maali desperate for his friends to locate the negatives?

6. Why is Maali eager to make contact with his friends?

7. Why does Dr. Ranee continue urging Maali to get the Ear Check?

8. Where do Jaki and her companions discover Maali's photographs?

9. In the opening section of the novel, “First Moon,” why does the author use the main character Maali’s second person point of view?

10. What does Maali's ear check ultimately reveal?

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