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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 type of business does Purvi's husband suggest he and Dilip go into in Chapter 16?
(a) Food and hospitality.
(b) Pharmaceuticals.
(c) Real estate.
(d) Medicinal mushrooms.

2. Who does Antara wish was there to help her with the baby and Tara at the end of Chapter 27?
(a) Her father.
(b) Kali Mata.
(c) Nani.
(d) Dilip's mother.

3. What does Antara decided in "2002" but does not tell her family?
(a) To move to London.
(b) To visit America.
(c) Not to attend art school.
(d) To study literature.

4. What book is quoted in the invitation Antara received to be part of a gallery opening she and Reza attended together?
(a) Great Expectations.
(b) The Old Man and the Sea.
(c) One Hundred Years of Solitude.
(d) Enormous Changes at the Last Minute.

5. What is the name of the waiter Tara and Antara meet at a diner while getting sundaes?
(a) Rita Pane.
(b) Govinda Pine.
(c) Reza Pine.
(d) Roger Pine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reza tell Antara about her skin issues in "1995"?

2. Where does Tara move to at the start of Chapter 24?

3. How long does Reza live with Antara and Tara before disappearing without a word?

4. What was Reza's job before working at the diner?

5. In Chapter 13, what does Antara say Dilip is obsessed with everything being when they discuss the differences between India and America?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Antara respond to Dilip when he says she was rude to their maid and that Americans would not speak to a maid like that?

2. What does Tara say to Dilip in Chapter 14 about Antara's daily art project?

3. Why is Tara brought to Antara at the beginning of Chapter 12, "1986" and how does she react?

4. Briefly describe Reza Pine's backstory.

5. How is Purvi's husband described in Chapter 16?

6. How does the way Tara compares her body to Antara's in "1996" make Antara feel?

7. Why does Dilip tell Antara she is too intense after their conversation with Elaine in Chapter 22?

8. What does Antara do instead of attending art school in "2002"?

9. What news does Antara's father call to share with her upon returning to India in "1995"?

10. How does Sister Maria Theresa treat Antara at the boarding school?

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