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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 does Reza do when he first sees Antara in "2003"?

2. What is the name of the boarding school Antara attended in "1989"?

3. What does Dilip say in regards to the mushroom's Purvi's husband describes which latch onto caterpillars?

4. How long does Reza live with Antara and Tara before disappearing without a word?

5. What is Tara holding when Antara wakes to find her lying beside her in bed in Chapter 24?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Antara tell Nani after Tara told Nani that she sometimes hears Baba's voice?

2. What do Dilip and the woman at the party discuss after she tells him he looks younger since becoming a vegetarian?

3. Why is Tara brought to Antara at the beginning of Chapter 12, "1986" and how does she react?

4. How is Purvi's husband described in Chapter 16?

5. What does Antara do instead of attending art school in "2002"?

6. What does Reza say to Antara in Chapter 21 the same evening she had gone skinny dipping with him and her mother?

7. Briefly describe Reza Pine's backstory.

8. What does Antara do in preparation for her confession to her mother about Reza in Chapter 26?

9. How does Tara feel about her status as Baba's lover after his funeral, and how does Antara respond?

10. What hurtful thing does Vandana say to Antara when Antara tells her she has to do what she says because she is her boss?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring the roles on men in Burnt Sugar. What do the men in the story represent? How to they impact the lives of the women in the novel? Use textual evidence to support your essay.

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 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?

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