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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 significant event happens at the start of Chapter 27?
2. Who calls Antara to express concern over the suggestion that Tara might live with her and Dilip?
3. What does Antara do in the car when she is told she is going to boarding school in "1989"?
4. In Chapter 22, what is one of the things Antara complains to her mother about because she knows she will not remember?
5. Why is Antara taken to the nurse at her boarding school toward the end of "1989"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the girls at the boarding school trying to turn the brutalities they receive from Sister Maria Theresa into a game?
2. How does Antara respond to Dilip when he says she was rude to their maid and that Americans would not speak to a maid like that?
3. In Chapter 14, what does Antara tell Dilip when he finds the photo from her art project that she has always claimed to have lost?
4. What does Tara say to Dilip in Chapter 14 about Antara's daily art project?
5. Why is Tara brought to Antara at the beginning of Chapter 12, "1986" and how does she react?
6. What does Reza say to Antara in Chapter 21 the same evening she had gone skinny dipping with him and her mother?
7. How does Tara know Antara is lying about the photo of Reza she finds in her place in Chapter 24?
8. Where is Antara when she first sees Reza in "2003"?
9. How long does Reza live with Tara and Antara before he disappears without a word?
10. What does Antara write in her diary in "1993"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay exploring Dilip's character in Burnt Sugar. What is the significance of his role in Antara's life? How does he move the storyline along?
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 Purvi's role in Burnt Sugar. Analyze her relationship with Antara and explore the significance of this relationship on the novel's themes.
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