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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long before their wedding did Dilip's mother arrive in India?
(a) Two months.
(b) One month.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) One week.

2. What was one thing Dilip's mother used to brag that she never did no her own as described in "1981"?
(a) Cooked a meal.
(b) Took care of a child.
(c) Cleaned a house.
(d) Went grocery shopping.

3. What does Antara to do try to help her mother remember things in the first chapter?
(a) She pours over photo albums.
(b) She has Tara's mother tell her stories of her childhood.
(c) She sits with her and tells her old stories.
(d) She leaves little notes around the house.

4. What did Tara's mother-in-law begin to eat every day after her husband's unexpected death?
(a) Turmeric.
(b) Pickeled Ginger.
(c) Pickled Garlic.
(d) Fennel.

5. What does Antara say that the doctor has said when Tara acts as though she is fine in Chapter 3?
(a) That she can no longer live alone.
(b) That she seems just fine.
(c) That she is forgetting things.
(d) That he is terribly worried about her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long of a walk is it from Antara's house to her mother's?

2. Which god did Antara have to marry and divorce before marrying Dilip so the god could absorb Antara's bad energy in the second chapter?

3. What did the pandit do to indicate Antara's divorce from the god during her ceremonial marriage and divorce?

4. What does Tara's doctor tell Antara she should consider doing after Antara hands him her notes?

5. Which animal killing in a zoo has turned Dilip into a vegetarian at the start of Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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