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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 does Chand tell the Subinspector to do with Malli's gang?
(a) Publicly hang them.
(b) Let them go.
(c) Arrest them.
(d) Shoot them.

2. How many passenger trains stop in Mano Majra each day?
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) None.

3. What does the word Monsoon really signify?
(a) A season.
(b) A summer rain.
(c) A rainstorm.
(d) A disaster.

4. What do the villagers smell at the end of this section?
(a) Dead bodies being burned.
(b) The smell of the trains moving.
(c) The wood stoves being lit.
(d) Flood waters rising.

5. What does Meet Singh claim Jugga is accused of?
(a) Killing the money lender.
(b) Killing his lover.
(c) Fleeing the country.
(d) Robbing the bank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do those placing matrimonial ads ask for?

2. What event ends Chand's actions with the young woman?

3. What is the Sutlej?

4. Where does the stranger go when he enters town?

5. What does the Subinspector note keeps Jugga of of trouble?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Chand's obsession with death, and how he tried to overcome it.

2. Describe what the villagers find at the river with the lambardar.

3. Explain why Iqbal is angry that the police are arresting him in Chapter 1, section 4, and what he believes they are arresting him for.

4. Describe the scene between Jugga and Malli at the end of Chapter 2, section 3.

5. Describe Imam Baksh's belief of how a religious man is seen. and why.

6. Explain why the villagers allow the Muslims to be evacuated.

7. Describe the morning routine of Mano Majra, in terms of the Muslim mosque and the Sikh temple.

8. Describe how the villagers learn of what was in the train.

9. What is revealed about Jugga's physical appearance, and his father, in Chapter 1, section 2?

10. Explain Iqbal's belief pertaining to morality in terms of financial status.

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