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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 did Maali swear while in the army?
(a) He was not a homosexual.
(b) He knew how to fight.
(c) He knew how to take photos.
(d) He knew how to beat others up.

2. Who does Maali meet on the night of his death in Fifth Moon?
(a) Elsa and Kuga.
(b) UN ambassadors.
(c) Kuga and Jaki.
(d) Crow Man.

3. Who does the Minister want to capture?
(a) Maari.
(b) Stanley.
(c) Elsa.
(d) Dada and Amma.

4. How does Jaki use her platform with the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation to help her?
(a) To announce a death.
(b) To announce that there is a discovery of skeletal remains.
(c) To gain followers on her Instagram.
(d) To communcate with Maali.

5. What does Maali relive from his past in the Fifth Moon?
(a) His fight with Dada.
(b) Horrific experiences.
(c) The kiss.
(d) Pleasant experiences.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Sixth Moon, where do Maali’s photos hang?

2. Who kept the letters from Maali?

3. Why do Maali and DD keep their relationship secret?

4. What does Maali tell Crow Man to tell Jaki to do?

5. In Fourth Moon, what does Maali wish he had with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maali think about while in the mara tree with Sena?

2. How does the author use Sena’s character?

3. Why does Maali continue lamenting the loss of his photographs?

4. Why does Maali want Jaki to forget the box?

5. What happens the longer Maali occupies the In Between?

6. "I was there to witness. That is all. All those sunrises and all those massacres existed because I filmed them. Now, they are as dead as me” (244). What does this quote mean?

7. How does the author convey Maali's spiritual trascencedence?

8. What does Maali tell Dr. Ranee after emerging from the dreamscape?

9. Over the course of the Fourth excerpt, how does the author use Maali’s sorrow?

10. What is the significance of the mara tree?

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