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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some of the things Antara collected as a child that she still has when she moves in with Dilip?
(a) Her mother's baby teeth.
(b) Old toothbrushes.
(c) Her grandmother's dentures.
(d) Antique tongue cleaners.

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

3. What does Dilip and Antara's neighbor, Mr. Governor, do when he wife visits Bombay?
(a) Throws parties.
(b) Invites strange women over.
(c) Follows his wife to Bombay.
(d) Cries on the balcony.

4. What is Tara's maid's name?
(a) Kashi.
(b) Nani.
(c) Kashta.
(d) Kali.

5. Where does Tara begin to go when she is pregnant and feeling alienated?
(a) On long walks alone.
(b) Church.
(c) The library.
(d) The ashram.

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

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

8. 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.

9. What does the narrator say she has found joy in at times in regards to her mother?
(a) Quality time with her mother.
(b) Her mother's smile.
(c) Walks with her mother.
(d) Her mother's misery.

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

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

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. How old was Tara when she met Antara's father?
(a) 21.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 24.

14. What part of their apartment makes Tara uncomfortable, but was a selling point for Dilip?
(a) The loud doorbell.
(b) The small kitchen.
(c) The many mirrors.
(d) The large size.

15. 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) M&Ms.
(b) Mung Beans.
(c) Buttons.
(d) Skittles.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Tara do to Antara when Antara reaches for her after her mother and the guru exchanged a smile?

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

5. What does Tara's mother-in-law decide she would do when she learned Tara was pregnant?

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