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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. What does Antara to do try to help her mother remember things in the first chapter?
2. Why did Dilip's mother need Antara's time and date of birth before the wedding?
3. What tattered articles of clothing does Antara notice hanging on her mother's balcony in Chapter 7?
4. Which animal killing in a zoo has turned Dilip into a vegetarian at the start of Chapter 8?
5. Why does Antara's father chastise her when she visits him in Chapter 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Tara's mother react when she first sees Antara's art project at a gallery opening?
2. 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?
3. Where does Tara first begin to see people traveling to the ashram? How old is she? How does she change?
4. How does Tara ultimately leave her husband in "1981"?
5. How does Antara's father react when she tell him of her mother's diagnosis?
6. 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?
7. Describe Antara's ongoing art project as explained in Chapter 2.
8. How does Tara change once she is pregnant with Antara?
9. Describe the moment Antara first meets Kali Mata in Chapter 9.
10. How does the narrator feel about the pain her mother is experiencing at the start of Chapter 1 and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the narrative structure of Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar. What effect does this have on the story and the reader? Use direct examples from the novel to support your analysis.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze Antara's relationship with her mother. Use examples from the text to show how and why their relationship is strained by the past and how it represents the themes of the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay exploring the symbolic significance of sweat and body odor in Burnt Sugar. Use some of the instances where sweat and odor are mentioned to further analyze the symbolic significance in the novel.
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