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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 is the island called where Maali travels to with Dr. Ranee and Sena to get the Ear Check?

2. Where do Jaki and her companions find Maali's photos?

3. What does Maali want from Crow Man?

4. What does Maali realize at the end of First Moon?

5. What color is the sari that the woman in wearing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who tells Maali to get his ears checked and what does the doctor say about ear folds?

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

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

4. What does Maali watch Kottu and Balal doing?

5. What is the box of photographs symbolic of?

6. What is Maali most concerned with?

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

8. How does the CNTR worker, Elsa Mathangi agree to help the detectives?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is Maali ambitious to take photographs throughout his life?

Essay Topic 2

The book oscillates between real-life and an ‘in-between’ underworld, an afterlife that is as bureaucratic as the world above - laden with rules. Discuss why the author has subverted the idea that for many a better afterlife exists.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Maali continue lamenting the loss of his photographs? Why do others in the Afterlife continue to discourage Maali's attachment to Down There?

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