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One Part Woman Quiz

Perumal Murugan

This Study Guide consists of approximately 44 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of One Part Woman.

One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan

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One Part Woman Quiz

Perumal Murugan

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What does Kali ask Mandayan if he can have? (from Chapters 29-34)

A portion of his land.

His unborn calf.

His unborn child.

His wife in marriage.

2.

Why is Ponna embarrassed while watching the play? (from Chapters 29-34)

Because the clown calls attention to her by calling her up on stage to perform a promiscuous dance.

Because the men in the play are naked, and Ponna has only ever seen Kali this way before.

Because the clown calls attention to her by referring to her as the actress Kumari Rukmini.

Because the men in the play call attention to her by referring to her as the actress Kumari Rukmini.

3.

Why does Kannaaya scold Ponna during another carriage ride of her memory? (from Chapters 22-28)

Because Ponna asks Kannaaya if she can adopt one of her children since she has so many.

Because Ponna slept with Kannaaya's husband, and Kannaaya discovers it while they are riding together.

Because Ponna tells her her husband stinks, and Kannaaya thinks Ponna believes she is better than everyone.

Because Ponna tells her her child stinks, and Kannaaya thinks Ponna knows nothing about children.

4.

What does the old woman in the field tell Ponna she must do to bear a child? (from Chapters 8-14)

Walk around the maladikkal, or barren rock.

Leave her husband and remarry another man.

Go to the eighteenth day of the chariot festival.

Collect groundnuts and offer them to her husband while he sleeps.

5.

Why does Ponna's mother make her drink neem juice? (from Chapters 1-7)

She thinks it will make her womb fertile.

She thinks it will make her more beautiful.

She thinks it will cure her of the parasites in her stomach.

She thinks it will help her have better sex with Kali.

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