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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 - 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Make Tara and her son get their own place.
(c) Move to America with them.
(d) Build a nursery in the house.

2. What part of their apartment makes Tara uncomfortable, but was a selling point for Dilip?
(a) The loud doorbell.
(b) The small kitchen.
(c) The large size.
(d) The many mirrors.

3. What was given to Tara on her wedding day so that she would not be a burden to her husband at first?
(a) A lot of saris.
(b) A maid.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Money.

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

5. What does Antara tell their maid Vandana she wants her to do in the chapter "1989"?
(a) Wash her feet.
(b) Bring her food in her room.
(c) Make her mother leave.
(d) Take her home with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tara do to Antara when Antara reaches for her after her mother and the guru exchanged a smile?

2. What does Antara quickly learn she is not to speak of when she and her mother are at her grandparents in "1989"?

3. In Chapter 13, Antara says that Dilip once reprimanded her for being rude to whom?

4. What does Tara do after giving Antara water in "1986"?

5. What is Tara doing at Dilip and Antara's apartment at the start of the third chapter?

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