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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. Who attends Neema's wedding?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Amisha.
(c) Deepak.
(d) Neema's classmates.

2. Why does Amisha begin to feel ill in Chapter 40?
(a) She got food poisoning.
(b) She has malaria.
(c) She has an infection.
(d) She is pregnant.

3. Where does Jaya walk in Chapter 50?
(a) The streets of Bombay.
(b) The school.
(c) To the airport.
(d) The marketplace.

4. Why does Deepak forbid Amisha from teaching at the school?
(a) He thinks she is neglecting her duties as a mother.
(b) He resents the British.
(c) He reads Neema's story.
(d) He knows about her attraction to Stephen.

5. What does Ravi hold at the beginning of the Epilogue?
(a) A brochure for a children's hospital in America.
(b) His will.
(c) A letter from Stephen.
(d) A restaurant menu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amisha tell Ravi in the Epilogue?

2. What does Amisha tell Stephen concerning her pregnancy in Chapter 41?

3. What does Amit want to be when he grows up?

4. Where do Jaya and Ravi visit on a tour bus?

5. What does Amisha tie around Stephen's wrist in Chapter 33?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what does Amit pray in the temple in Chapter 43?

2. What is Ravi's response when Jaya asks him if he believes in God?

3. In whose bed does Ravi die?

4. What does Ravi tell Jaya caused Amisha's hallucinations?

5. How does Ravi learn about Lena's marriage prospects?

6. Where do Samir and Jay go off to study when they are older?

7. To whom does Jaya give her basket filled with color-balloons?

8. Who works at the orphanage where Jaya visits?

9. What does Amisha tell Stephen about the Indian wedding custom?

10. Why does Deepak dismiss Ravi from his role as a servant in Chapter 51?

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