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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tara's mother-in-law suggest Tara do just before her husband got home?
(a) Wait by the door.
(b) Prepare him a drink.
(c) Put on a new dress.
(d) Prepare his dinner.

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

3. What does Tara's mother-in-law decide she would do when she learned Tara was pregnant?
(a) Have Tara's baby sleep with her.
(b) Move to America with them.
(c) Build a nursery in the house.
(d) Make Tara and her son get their own place.

4. What does the doctor say "are protein formations that usually appear in the brain of Alzheimer's patients" (7)?
(a) Neurological protein inhibitors.
(b) Neurofibrillary proteins.
(c) Alzheimer's plaque.
(d) Amyloid plaque.

5. How did Antara's father bribe classmates in order to make friends?
(a) He would pay them.
(b) He would get them liquor.
(c) He would do their homework for the.
(d) He would buy them candy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dilip's mother think about Antara's father?

2. What does Dilip and Antara's neighbor, Mr. Governor, do when he wife visits Bombay?

3. What did Tara's mother-in-law begin to eat every day after her husband's unexpected death?

4. What tattered articles of clothing does Antara notice hanging on her mother's balcony in Chapter 7?

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

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