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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 meal does Antara have with her mother at the start of Chapter 7?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Breakfast.
(c) Tea.
(d) Lunch.

2. Where were the travelers Tara met as a teen at the roadside diner heading to?
(a) The convent school.
(b) The Taj Mahal.
(c) Bombay.
(d) The ashram.

3. 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 misery.
(c) Her mother's smile.
(d) Walks with her mother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some of the things Antara now does for her mother at the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. What does Tara's doctor tell Antara she should consider doing after Antara hands him her notes?

3. What does the doctor's drawing of the brain in Chapter 1 look like to Antara?

4. What did Tara's mother-in-law begin to eat every day after her husband's unexpected death?

5. What is one ingredient Antara does not say is missing from her mother's dish at the start of Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Dilip's mother suggest to Tara about their wedding, which offends Tara?

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

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

5. During which conversation between the narrator and her husband is her name revealed for the first time?

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

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

8. What does Dilip say when Antara asks why he might want children at the end of Chapter 11?

9. How does Tara ultimately leave her husband in "1981"?

10. Why does Dilip's mother send a pandit to perform a wedding ceremony between the narrator and Vishnu?

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