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

2. Who is Sena Pathirana?

3. What year are the photos taken?

4. What does Maali worry about?

5. Who is the Minister guarded by?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the box of photographs symbolic of?

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

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

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

6. Why does Maali feel as if his life has been a waste?

7. What does Maali watch Kottu and Balal doing?

8. Why do Ranchagoda and Cassim visit Hotel Leo?

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

10. How does the author particularly use Maali’s box of photos in the novel?

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

What is the symbolic connotation of the seven moons?

Essay Topic 3

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is narrated entirely in the second person. Why might the author have chosen to write the novel in this manner?

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