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THE WHEEL OF SURYA, Jamila Gavin
Chapters 9-12

 
    Read the chapters and answer the following questions.

    Chapter 9
    1. Where do Jhoti and her children live now?
    2. What is hard about life there?
    3. What is the political situation in the country?
    4. What is the teacher’s view of the situation?
    5. What is special about the friendship between Jaspal and Nazakhat?
    6. What happens to the village and the family?

     

    Chapter 10
    1. How can Jhoti afford to take her family to England?
    2. How do they travel to the railway station?
    3. Why is it so difficult to get to Bombay?
    4. How does Jaspal change his appearance, and why?
    5. What disaster occurs in the railway station?
    6. What disaster occurs on the train? What happens to Marvinder and Jaspal?

     

    Chapter 11
    1. Marvinder and Jaspal are in a refugee camp. What do they do?
    2. Why is the buffalo so important to them?
    3. What happened on 15th August 1947?
    4. How do Marvinder and Jaspal get onto the train?
    5. What kind of a character is the old man?

     

    Chapter 12
    1. How do Marvinder and Jaspal react when they see the sea?
    2. What happened to the old man’s family?
    3. How does he feel about the conflict between different religious groups?
    4. Where does he take the children and what happens there?
    5. What kind of a character is the vicar?
    6. How do the old man and the children survive in Bombay?

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