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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How long after Tara's marriage was Antara born?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 6 months.
2. What does Tara do to Antara when Antara reaches for her after her mother and the guru exchanged a smile?
(a) She pushes Antara away.
(b) She falls to her knees and cries.
(c) She does not look at Antara.
(d) She pulls Antara close to her.
3. What is one of the reasons Antara's grandmother gives for Tara's forgetfulness?
(a) She is not married.
(b) She does not read enough.
(c) She has never been very smart.
(d) She does not care to remember.
4. What does Dilip's mother record on her phone on the drive from the airport?
(a) The beautiful scenery.
(b) The litter.
(c) The tollbooths.
(d) A small group of boys defecating outside.
5. Where does Tara begin to go when she is pregnant and feeling alienated?
(a) On long walks alone.
(b) The ashram.
(c) Church.
(d) The library.
6. What is the name of Dilip's aunt who said plucked the hairs from her head when her father did not want her to become a Jain nun?
(a) Kamala.
(b) Kali.
(c) Kashti.
(d) Kasha.
7. Where did Antara begin to collect things as a child?
(a) Her grandmother's house.
(b) The backyard.
(c) School.
(d) Her mother's room.
8. How old was Tara when she met Antara's father?
(a) 24.
(b) 18.
(c) 21.
(d) 16.
9. What tattered articles of clothing does Antara notice hanging on her mother's balcony in Chapter 7?
(a) Panties.
(b) Stockings.
(c) Saris.
(d) Bras.
10. What does Dilip and Antara's neighbor, Mr. Governor, do when he wife visits Bombay?
(a) Follows his wife to Bombay.
(b) Cries on the balcony.
(c) Throws parties.
(d) Invites strange women over.
11. What is Kali Mata's birth name?
(a) Kelly.
(b) Eve.
(c) Katherine.
(d) Carol.
12. How did Tara begin dressing as a teen, which her grandmother said was old-fashioned compared to her peers?
(a) in dresses with high collars.
(b) In all white.
(c) In long flowery skirts.
(d) In all black.
13. What is different about the clothing of the woman who offers to help Antara at the ashram in Chapter 9?
(a) It looks expensive.
(b) It is all black.
(c) It is brightly colored.
(d) She wears slacks.
14. What does Antara's mother deny saying when Antara brings it up in Chapter 7?
(a) That Antara was trying to destroy her.
(b) That Antara's father is dead.
(c) That Dilip is a fool.
(d) That Antara is a liar.
15. Why did Dilip's mother need Antara's time and date of birth before the wedding?
(a) So her astrologer could tell them when to have children.
(b) So her astrologer could see if Dilip and Antara's stars aligned.
(c) So her astrologer could tell her fortune.
(d) So her astrologer could choose the wedding date.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Tara say Antara smelled like in Chapter 10, which signified to her she had her period?
2. What does Antara to do try to help her mother remember things in the first chapter?
3. What is the name of the man Kali Mata meets who takes her to India?
4. How does Antara describe the guru in Chapter 9?
5. What does Baba, the name they call the guru at the ashram, mean?
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