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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What is the primary purpose of the poetry Arjie recites, and the speech Black Tie gives? (from The Best School of All)

To promote fundraising.

To promote college.

To promote the school's athletics department.

To promote tolerance.

2.

How do Arjie and his family manage to survive through the worst of the riots? (from Riot Journal: An Epilogue)

By hiding at the police station.

By camping at the beach.

By relying on family.

By hiding in a church.

3.

According to relatives, Arjie is "funny". What does "funny" imply? (from Pigs Can’t Fly – Radha Aunty)

Comedy.

Mental disability.

Homosexuality.

Illegitimate parentage.

4.

What does Arjie believe about public attitudes toward homosexuality? (from The Best School of All)

They are shaped by the media.

They are invented by people who hold power.

They are both corrrect, and incorrect, and must be changed by mandate of the people.

They are necessary traditions borne of practical evolution of society.

5.

Why does Radha's family warn her against her idealistic conceptions of relations? (from Pigs Can’t Fly – Radha Aunty)

Because love is an invention of Westerners.

Because there is a real world.

Because Radha's betrothed's family will not take this lightly.

Because Canada has different values than Sri Lanka.

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