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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. Who does Antara share a room with during her time at the ashram?
2. Where does Antara say her mother's history can be found at the end of "1981"?
3. What is the name of the man Kali Mata meets who takes her to India?
4. What does Antara to do try to help her mother remember things in the first chapter?
5. In Chapter 10, who does Antara say she always consider ageless until they died unexpectedly at home?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the moment Antara first meets Kali Mata in Chapter 9.
2. Describe Antara's ongoing art project as explained in Chapter 2.
3. How does the narrator feel about the pain her mother is experiencing at the start of Chapter 1 and why?
4. Where does Tara first begin to see people traveling to the ashram? How old is she? How does she change?
5. What does Tara say when Antara suggests she needs new bras?
6. What were some of the early indications of the narrator's mother's decline with a year before the story begins?
7. What conversation does Antara have with Nani regarding the note she found in Tara's apartment about khichdi?
8. How does Tara ultimately leave her husband in "1981"?
9. What does the Club represent to Antara as explained in Chapter 5?
10. What does the narrator's husband, Dilip, suggest she do to try to help her mother's memory?
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
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 and essay about mother-daughter relationships in Burnt Sugar. Focus on relationships between Antara and Tara, Tara and Nani as well as Antara and Tara's mothers-in law. How do these relationships develop the overall themes of the novel?
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