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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What worries Dilip when Antara tells him she thinks her mother will have to live with them someday?
(a) He worries they will no longer have any privacy.
(b) He worries the stress the two women cause each other will do more harm then good.
(c) He worries they will need to pay for an additional maid.
(d) He worries he will not know how to take care of Tara.

2. What does Antara quickly learn she is not to speak of when she and her mother are at her grandparents in "1989"?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her father's new wife.
(c) Baba.
(d) Tara.

3. What does Reza do when he first sees Antara in "2003"?
(a) He tries to avoid her.
(b) He asks about Tara.
(c) He hugs her.
(d) He apologizes for leaving.

4. What does Dilip find in Antara's studio which she had told him she lost?
(a) Her license.
(b) The photo she has been drawing pictures of every day.
(c) Tara's medicine.
(d) Her birth certificate.

5. What do Dilip and Antara find Tara had done when she was in Antara's studio in Chapter 14?
(a) She lit Antara's clothing on fire.
(b) She reorganized the room.
(c) She tore up Antara's art work.
(d) She lit Antara's things on fire.

6. Where is Antara at the beginning of "2003"?
(a) A nightclub.
(b) Her art class.
(c) An art opening.
(d) A friend's house.

7. What significant event occurred in Chapter 18 which caused Tara grief?
(a) Tara's father died.
(b) Tara's ex-husband died.
(c) Tara's mother died.
(d) Baba died.

8. What do the girls at the boarding school pretend their welts and bruises are in "1989"?
(a) Love bites.
(b) Tattoos.
(c) Kiss marks.
(d) Rings and bangles.

9. What significant event happens at the start of Chapter 27?
(a) Nani dies.
(b) Tara dies.
(c) Antara has her baby.
(d) Dilip moves out.

10. What term does Antara use to describe her mother in Chapter 27 when she asks Nani to watch over Tara?
(a) A happy goldfish.
(b) A useless being.
(c) An ignorant donkey.
(d) A forgetful elephant.

11. What did Purvi's husband threaten to do to Antara when they argued a year before?
(a) Put a cigar out on her face.
(b) Ban Purvi from speaking to her.
(c) Kick her out of his house.
(d) Tell her husband she cheated on him.

12. Where does Antara's father take her and her mother after they had been living outside the Pune Club and begging?
(a) Nani and Nana's house.
(b) The airport.
(c) His house.
(d) The train station.

13. Why do the Governors move out of their apartment in Chapter 22?
(a) Mrs. Governor wanted to be closer to her boyfriend in Bombay.
(b) Mrs. Governor moved the U.S. with her boyfriend.
(c) Mrs. Governor's affair became well known in Pune.
(d) Mr. Governor got a job in England.

14. What does Sister Maria Theresa call Antara when she wet her bed one night in "1989"?
(a) A filthy little Hindu.
(b) A repulsive child.
(c) A nasty little thing.
(d) A reprehensible beggar.

15. In Chapter 13, what does Antara say Dilip is obsessed with everything being when they discuss the differences between India and America?
(a) Sterile.
(b) Huge.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Neat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Antara taken to the nurse at her boarding school toward the end of "1989"?

2. What does Reza tell Antara when she tells him how repulsive she finds him in "1996"?

3. What does Dilip say in regards to the mushroom's Purvi's husband describes which latch onto caterpillars?

4. What is the girl with the darkest bruises dubbed at the boarding school in "1989"?

5. What does Sister Maria Theresa do to Antara after calling her "a vandal" (129) in "1989"?

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