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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. Where did Antara begin to collect things as a child?

2. What did the pandit do to indicate Antara's divorce from the god during her ceremonial marriage and divorce?

3. What does Dilip say when Antara expresses her anger at her mother calling her a liar?

4. 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?

5. What does Dilip and Antara's neighbor, Mr. Governor, do when he wife visits Bombay?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dilip's mother send a pandit to perform a wedding ceremony between the narrator and Vishnu?

2. How is what Dilip says about Mr. Governor's behaviour when his wife is away different from what Antara says?

3. How does Antara describe how the guru and his followers looked to her as a child in the ashram?

4. What conversation does Antara have with Nani regarding the note she found in Tara's apartment about khichdi?

5. How does Tara ultimately leave her husband in "1981"?

6. What does Dilip say when Antara asks why he might want children at the end of Chapter 11?

7. How is Antara's early life described as the start of the chapter entitled "1981"?

8. During which conversation between the narrator and her husband is her name revealed for the first time?

9. What does the Club represent to Antara as explained in Chapter 5?

10. In Chapter 1, how does the doctor describe what is happening to the narrator's mother's brain and memory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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