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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. Why did Antara's father's family move so often when he was young?
2. What color is Tara's wedding sari?
3. What does Dilip say when Antara expresses her anger at her mother calling her a liar?
4. What is one of the reasons Antara's grandmother gives for Tara's forgetfulness?
5. What is one way Dilip tries to solve the problem Antara has with her father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were some of the early indications of the narrator's mother's decline with a year before the story begins?
2. How does Tara's mother react when she first sees Antara's art project at a gallery opening?
3. How does the narrator feel about the pain her mother is experiencing at the start of Chapter 1 and why?
4. 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?
5. How does Antara's father react when she tell him of her mother's diagnosis?
6. Describe the moment Antara first meets Kali Mata in Chapter 9.
7. How is Antara's early life described as the start of the chapter entitled "1981"?
8. Why does Dilip's mother send a pandit to perform a wedding ceremony between the narrator and Vishnu?
9. What does Tara's doctor suggest Antara do in Chapter 11 after Antara shows the doctor her research notes?
10. What does Dilip say when Antara asks why he might want children at the end of Chapter 11?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Write an essay exploring the author's choice to write Burnt Sugar from Antara's point of view. How does this choice impact the story and the reader?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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