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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What note does Nani find at Tara's house which, after Antara reads it to her, she tells her it never happened?
(a) A note about Tara putting potato in Antara's khichdi.
(b) A note about Tara putting too much lemon in Antara's khichdi.
(c) A note about the time Tara put chili in Antara's khichdi.
(d) A note about Tara putting too much salt in Antara's khichdi.

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

3. What was one thing Dilip's mother used to brag that she never did no her own as described in "1981"?
(a) Took care of a child.
(b) Went grocery shopping.
(c) Cooked a meal.
(d) Cleaned a house.

4. What is Tara doing at Dilip and Antara's apartment at the start of the third chapter?
(a) Reading.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Napping.
(d) Watching T.V.

5. Where were the travelers Tara met as a teen at the roadside diner heading to?
(a) The convent school.
(b) Bombay.
(c) The ashram.
(d) The Taj Mahal.

6. 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.

7. Where did Antara begin to collect things as a child?
(a) The backyard.
(b) Her mother's room.
(c) School.
(d) Her grandmother's house.

8. How did Tara begin dressing as a teen, which her grandmother said was old-fashioned compared to her peers?
(a) In all black.
(b) In long flowery skirts.
(c) In all white.
(d) in dresses with high collars.

9. What does Antara's mother deny saying when Antara brings it up in Chapter 7?
(a) That Antara's father is dead.
(b) That Antara was trying to destroy her.
(c) That Dilip is a fool.
(d) That Antara is a liar.

10. What does Antara say that the doctor has said when Tara acts as though she is fine in Chapter 3?
(a) That he is terribly worried about her.
(b) That she seems just fine.
(c) That she can no longer live alone.
(d) That she is forgetting things.

11. Where will Dilip and Antara get married?
(a) America.
(b) The bakery where they met.
(c) The Bombay Cafe.
(d) The Pune Club.

12. Who is the author of Burnt Sugar?
(a) Antara Doshi.
(b) Avni Doshi.
(c) Avril Dashi.
(d) Tara Doshi.

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

14. What is Kali Mata's birth name?
(a) Eve.
(b) Carol.
(c) Kelly.
(d) Katherine.

15. 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?
(a) She remembers that year.
(b) She remembers seeing the moon.
(c) She has seen the moon closer since them.
(d) She had her daughter on a full moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Antara share a room with during her time at the ashram?

2. What happens to Kali Mata's mother-in-law, Grandma June, at the age of 59?

3. In the first chapter, what does Antara wish was legal in India like it is in the Netherlands?

4. How long after Tara's marriage was Antara born?

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

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