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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 28 - 32 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tara tell Antara she needs to stop doing at the end of Chapter 18?
(a) Trying to take are of her.
(b) Paying her maid.
(c) Living at her apartment.
(d) Making her drawings.

3. Where do the girls sleep at Antara's boarding school in "1989"?
(a) The backyard.
(b) The cafeteria.
(c) Apartments.
(d) The gym.

4. What did the pandit do to indicate Antara's divorce from the god during her ceremonial marriage and divorce?
(a) Rip off Antara's blindfold.
(b) Rip the idol from her hands and put it away.
(c) Rip off her necklace and smear red paint on her forehead.
(d) Stomp on the bronze idol.

5. What event in Chapter 18 results in Antara deciding to stay at her mother's with her?
(a) Antara discovered her mother had not been bathing.
(b) Tara left her apartment in her nightgown at night and tried to hail a rickshaw.
(c) Antara discovered her mother had not been eating.
(d) Tara left her oven on all night and nearly started a fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dilip's mother add to Antara's rice to remove excess gas from her milk?

2. What part of their apartment makes Tara uncomfortable, but was a selling point for Dilip?

3. What does Baba, the name they call the guru at the ashram, mean?

4. Who does Antara meet at the Club on Boxing Day in Chapter 11?

5. How long before their wedding did Dilip's mother arrive in India?

(see the answer key)

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