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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 was given to Tara on her wedding day so that she would not be a burden to her husband at first?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) A lot of saris.
(c) Money.
(d) A maid.

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

3. How long has Kali Mata been at the ashram when she meets Tara?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 10 years.

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

5. What does Dilip and Antara's neighbor, Mr. Governor, do when he wife visits Bombay?
(a) Cries on the balcony.
(b) Follows his wife to Bombay.
(c) Invites strange women over.
(d) Throws parties.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which animal killing in a zoo has turned Dilip into a vegetarian at the start of Chapter 8?

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

3. Where will Dilip and Antara get married?

4. What does Antara's mother deny saying when Antara brings it up in Chapter 7?

5. Where did Tara and Antara live when Antara was young?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. Why does Antara share a room with Kali Mata at the ashram?

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

7. How is Antara's early life described as the start of the chapter entitled "1981"?

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

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

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

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