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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long after Tara's marriage was Antara born?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 1 year.

3. Which animal killing in a zoo has turned Dilip into a vegetarian at the start of Chapter 8?
(a) A lioness.
(b) A seal.
(c) A gorilla.
(d) A bull.

4. What does Antara say she enjoyed killing as a child?
(a) Worms.
(b) Slugs.
(c) Ants.
(d) Spiders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dilip say when Antara expresses her anger at her mother calling her a liar?

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

3. How does Antara describe the guru in Chapter 9?

4. 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?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about the pain her mother is experiencing at the start of Chapter 1 and why?

2. Describe the moment Antara first meets Kali Mata in Chapter 9.

3. What family story does Dilip tell when he announces to Antara that he wants to be a vegetarian and why does he tell this story?

4. How does Dilip's mother react when she sees some boys openly defecating when she first arrives in India from America and how does the narrator feel?

5. How does Tara's mother react when she first sees Antara's art project at a gallery opening?

6. How is what Dilip says about Mr. Governor's behaviour when his wife is away different from what Antara says?

7. What does Tara's doctor suggest Antara do in Chapter 11 after Antara shows the doctor her research notes?

8. How does Antara's father react when she tell him of her mother's diagnosis?

9. What were some of the early indications of the narrator's mother's decline with a year before the story begins?

10. Why does Dilip decide to become a vegetarian in Chapter 8?

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