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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 Pishi want for Gouri?
(a) To get married.
(b) To have heart surgery.
(c) To move to America.
(d) To move into a nursing home.

2. After Sudha is pregnant, how does she feel toward her mother-in-law?
(a) Loving.
(b) Ashamed.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Thankful.

3. How does Anju feel about being married?
(a) She is disappointed about being married.
(b) She is anxious about being married.
(c) She loves being married.
(d) She is ashamed of being married.

4. Anju finds it easy to ____________.
(a) Hide things from her husband.
(b) Pretend that she is happy.
(c) Pretend that she is in love with her husband.
(d) Spy on her husband.

5. What do the girls learn is hereditary in the family?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Brain defect.
(c) Eye disorder.
(d) Depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sudha's mother-in-law want her to have an abortion?

2. What does Sudah do to cheer herself up?

3. Why does the doctor say that Sudha is unable to get pregnant?

4. Initially, what do the mothers tell Sudha to do about her mother-in-law?

5. Anju thinks that Sunil has kept Sudha away so that ___________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Anju second guessing her decision for Sudha to move to America?

2. How does Anju feel when she finds Sudha's handkerchief in Sunjil's belongings?

3. Why does Sudha think that Gouri has not called to tell her about the brain defect?

4. What request does Ashok make of Sudha?

5. How does Anju find peace?

6. How does Sudha find peace?

7. What role does Sudha's mother-in-law take over Sudha's reproductivity?

8. What worries does Sudha have for her unborn child?

9. In what ways have the mothers found new identities?

10. How does Anju's life change in America?

(see the answer keys)

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