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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the man Kali Mata meets who takes her to India?
(a) Govinda.
(b) Bodhi.
(c) Ganesha.
(d) Devendra.

2. 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 choose the wedding date.
(d) So her astrologer could tell her fortune.

3. 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) Antique tongue cleaners.
(c) Old toothbrushes.
(d) Her grandmother's dentures.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the doctor say "are protein formations that usually appear in the brain of Alzheimer's patients" (7)?
(a) Neurological protein inhibitors.
(b) Alzheimer's plaque.
(c) Amyloid plaque.
(d) Neurofibrillary proteins.

11. 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 black.
(c) In all white.
(d) In long flowery skirts.

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

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

14. Why does Antara wash her sheets everyday?
(a) Dilip suffers night sweats.
(b) Dilip wets the bed.
(c) She is has OCD.
(d) She suffers night sweats.

15. What other family member does Antara's Nani say was forgetful?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her great-grandmother.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Antara's father's family move so often when he was young?

2. What does Tara tell Dilip at the beginning of Chapter 3 when he asks how she is doing?

3. 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?

4. What does Antara say she enjoyed killing as a child?

5. What is one of the reasons Antara's grandmother gives for Tara's forgetfulness?

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