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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Antara's grandmother say about her mother at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) That she was a good mother.
(b) That she has gained a lot of weight.
(c) That she will be okay.
(d) That she was always a problem.

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

4. 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.

5. What does Antara separate in a steel bowl by color in the first chapter in her mother's apartment when they return from the doctor?
(a) Buttons.
(b) Skittles.
(c) M&Ms.
(d) Mung Beans.

6. What does Dilip's mother think about Antara's father?
(a) Tara does not know who Antara's father is.
(b) He moved away.
(c) He left when Antara was a baby and Tara never told her who he is.
(d) He died.

7. What does Tara's mother-in-law decide she would do when she learned Tara was pregnant?
(a) Make Tara and her son get their own place.
(b) Move to America with them.
(c) Build a nursery in the house.
(d) Have Tara's baby sleep with her.

8. What color is Tara's wedding sari?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

9. How does Antara describe the guru in Chapter 9?
(a) A floating cloud.
(b) A giant pyramid.
(c) A towering tree.
(d) A thunderous presence.

10. Where do Tara and her husband plan to move so he could pursue his masters degree?
(a) America.
(b) Bombay.
(c) England.
(d) The Netherlands.

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

12. What is different about the clothing of the woman who offers to help Antara at the ashram in Chapter 9?
(a) She wears slacks.
(b) It looks expensive.
(c) It is brightly colored.
(d) It is all black.

13. Where was Kali Mata born?
(a) Lincoln, MS.
(b) Louisville, KY.
(c) Leominster, PA.
(d) Lanesboro, PA.

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

15. What does Tara tell Dilip at the beginning of Chapter 3 when he asks how she is doing?
(a) She asks where she is.
(b) She asks who he is.
(c) She says she considered suicide at first, but feels fine now.
(d) She asks why he is asking.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Tara when she met Antara's father?

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

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

5. What tattered articles of clothing does Antara notice hanging on her mother's balcony in Chapter 7?

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