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

2. What does Dilip's mother ask Tara when they are planning the wedding details at the end of the second chapter?
(a) If Tara has a date to the wedding.
(b) If they have any family members who can give Antara away.
(c) If they can exclude Antara's grandparents from the wedding.
(d) If Tara would like her to choose her outfit.

3. 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) Took care of a child.
(d) Went grocery shopping.

4. Where did Tara and Antara live when Antara was young?
(a) A convent.
(b) Italy.
(c) A homeless shelter.
(d) An ashram.

5. Who does Antara see at the Club on Boxing Day though they do not acknowledge each other?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her mother's doctor.
(d) Her father and his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Dilip's aunt who said plucked the hairs from her head when her father did not want her to become a Jain nun?

2. Why did Dilip's mother need Antara's time and date of birth before the wedding?

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

4. What does Dilip's mother record on her phone on the drive from the airport?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tara change once she is pregnant with Antara?

2. How does Antara describe how the guru and his followers looked to her as a child in the ashram?

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

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

6. Where does Tara first begin to see people traveling to the ashram? How old is she? How does she change?

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

8. What does the narrator's husband, Dilip, suggest she do to try to help her mother's memory?

9. 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?

10. In Chapter 1, how does the doctor describe what is happening to the narrator's mother's brain and memory?

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