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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dilip's mother ask Tara when they are planning the wedding details at the end of the second chapter?
(a) If Tara has a date to the wedding.
(b) If Tara would like her to choose her outfit.
(c) If they can exclude Antara's grandparents from the wedding.
(d) If they have any family members who can give Antara away.

2. Why does Antara's father chastise her when she visits him in Chapter 4?
(a) For never calling him.
(b) For not answering his calls.
(c) For not visiting him more often.
(d) For not telling him she was coming over.

3. What does Dilip say when Antara expresses her anger at her mother calling her a liar?
(a) He says to just ignore it.
(b) He says her mother no longer knows what she is talking about.
(c) He says Antara makes her art about how people cannot be trusted.
(d) He asks if her mother is right.

4. How long of a walk is it from Antara's house to her mother's?
(a) 1.5 hours.
(b) 45 minutes.
(c) 5 minutes.
(d) 2 hours.

5. What happens to Kali Mata's mother-in-law, Grandma June, at the age of 59?
(a) Her husband leaves her.
(b) She is diagnosed with cancer.
(c) She dies suddenly.
(d) She remarries.

6. 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) Build a nursery in the house.
(d) Move to America with them.

7. What does Tara say Antara is always doing when they argue at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Bullying her.
(b) Barging in on her.
(c) Lying to her.
(d) Stealing from her.

8. In Chapter 10, who does Antara say she always consider ageless until they died unexpectedly at home?
(a) Nani.
(b) Nana.
(c) Kali Mata.
(d) Her great-grandmother.

9. What is one way Dilip tries to solve the problem Antara has with her father?
(a) He schedules weekly lunches for Antara and her father.
(b) He invites her father over the house for dinner.
(c) He begins to call her father every week.
(d) He suggests they invite him to dinner at the Club.

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

11. Who does Antara see at the Club on Boxing Day though they do not acknowledge each other?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her mother's doctor.
(d) Her father and his family.

12. Which animal killing in a zoo has turned Dilip into a vegetarian at the start of Chapter 8?
(a) A seal.
(b) A bull.
(c) A lioness.
(d) A gorilla.

13. 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?
(a) Ganesha.
(b) Vishnu.
(c) Shiva.
(d) Brahma.

14. Who does Antara meet at the Club on Boxing Day in Chapter 11?
(a) Tara.
(b) Dilip.
(c) Purvi.
(d) Nani.

15. What does Baba, the name they call the guru at the ashram, mean?
(a) King.
(b) Holy one.
(c) Father.
(d) God-like.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nani say she remembers when Antara tells her that the moon has not been this close to the earth since 1948, the year she was born?

2. What is the name of the man Kali Mata meets who takes her to India?

3. Where did Tara and Antara live when Antara was young?

4. What are some of the things Antara now does for her mother at the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. What are some of the things Antara collected as a child that she still has when she moves in with Dilip?

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