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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 are the items that Jaki bring to the meeting meant for?
(a) An offering for Crow Man’s communication.
(b) A peace sign.
(c) A rememberance of Maali.
(d) So Maali can communicate to her.

2. Who is The Crow Man?
(a) A figure of death.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A tax man.
(d) A liaison between the living and dead.

3. Who do Elsa, detectives, and Stanley recognize in the photos?
(a) The boy.
(b) The Minister of Justice.
(c) Maali.
(d) The policeman.

4. Who is Maali's parents?
(a) Ranchagoda and Cassim.
(b) Stanley and Elsa.
(c) Dada and Amma.
(d) Jaki and Tobias.

5. What does Dr. Ranee say gets stuck in the In Between?
(a) Past time.
(b) Memories.
(c) Spirits.
(d) Material things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the souls do in the Afterlife?

2. What is in the box under Maali's bed?

3. What does Maari say in response to the woman?

4. Who is Sena Pathirana?

5. When Maali wakes in the afterlife, what does he think is happening?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who and what does Maali see on the Hotel Leo rooftop?

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

4. Why is Maali unsure about what happened to him?

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

6. What does Maali think is happening when he first wakes in the In Between?

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

8. What is in the box under Maali's bed?

9. What is the box of photographs symbolic of?

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

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