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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 is Kali Mata's birth name?
2. What does Dilip say when Antara expresses her anger at her mother calling her a liar?
3. What does Tara say Antara smelled like in Chapter 10, which signified to her she had her period?
4. Why does Antara's father chastise her when she visits him in Chapter 4?
5. How did Tara begin dressing as a teen, which her grandmother said was old-fashioned compared to her peers?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Tara first begin to see people traveling to the ashram? How old is she? How does she change?
2. What does the Club represent to Antara as explained in Chapter 5?
3. What were some of the early indications of the narrator's mother's decline with a year before the story begins?
4. How does the narrator feel about the pain her mother is experiencing at the start of Chapter 1 and why?
5. How does Tara's mother react when she first sees Antara's art project at a gallery opening?
6. What does the narrator's husband, Dilip, suggest she do to try to help her mother's memory?
7. Why does Antara share a room with Kali Mata at the ashram?
8. How is Antara's early life described as the start of the chapter entitled "1981"?
9. What does Dilip's mother suggest to Tara about their wedding, which offends Tara?
10. Describe the moment Antara first meets Kali Mata in Chapter 9.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay explaining the significance of the title of Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar. How does the title support the overall narrative tone and theme of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing narrative voice in Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar. Include thoughts on how the narrative voice of the story is effective in conveying the novel's themes.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay exploring the theme of motherhood in Burnt Sugar. Use direct examples from the text to support your essay.
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