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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 other family member does Antara's Nani say was forgetful?
2. What does the doctor's drawing of the brain in Chapter 1 look like to Antara?
3. In Chapter 10, who does Antara say she always consider ageless until they died unexpectedly at home?
4. Where does Tara begin to go when she is pregnant and feeling alienated?
5. What does Antara separate in a steel bowl by color in the first chapter in her mother's apartment when they return from the doctor?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What does the narrator's husband, Dilip, suggest she do to try to help her mother's memory?
3. How does Tara ultimately leave her husband in "1981"?
4. In Chapter 1, how does the doctor describe what is happening to the narrator's mother's brain and memory?
5. Why does Antara share a room with Kali Mata at the ashram?
6. What does Dilip's mother suggest to Tara about their wedding, which offends Tara?
7. How does Antara's father react when she tell him of her mother's diagnosis?
8. What were some of the early indications of the narrator's mother's decline with a year before the story begins?
9. How is Antara's early life described as the start of the chapter entitled "1981"?
10. Why does Dilip's mother send a pandit to perform a wedding ceremony between the narrator and Vishnu?
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 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?
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