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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Antara and Dilip meet?

2. Where do Tara and her husband plan to move so he could pursue his masters degree?

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

4. Why did Antara's father's family move so often when he was young?

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

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

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

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

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

6. What conversation does Antara have with Nani regarding the note she found in Tara's apartment about khichdi?

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Moths appear throughout Burnt Sugar. Write an essay exploring the symbolic significance these creatures have in Burnt Sugar. Analyze the particular instances in which moths appear in the story.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay examining the ending of Burnt Sugar. How did the ending impact you emotionally? Do you think the ending was effective? What might the author have done differently?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring Purvi's role in Burnt Sugar. Analyze her relationship with Antara and explore the significance of this relationship on the novel's themes.

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