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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 3 - 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Uma and Aruna feel about their mother's pregnancy?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Bitterness.
(c) Joy.
(d) Shame.

2. What does Papa demand at his meals?
(a) For his family to listen to his daily soliloquies.
(b) Silence.
(c) Meat.
(d) Intelligent conversation.

3. What decision do Uma's parents make that displeases her?
(a) Uma will go to boarding school in the fall.
(b) Uma will not return to the convent school.
(c) Uma must marry a young man she despises.
(d) Uma has to stay in India instead of going to the United States for school.

4. What do Mama and Papa do on occasional evenings at the club?
(a) Play shuffleboard.
(b) Bet or horse races.
(c) Swim.
(d) Play cars.

5. What does Uma say about having to take care of her new baby brother?
(a) She is bitter that another male is being coddled.
(b) She wishes it had been a baby girl.
(c) She loves everything about it.
(d) Her school work is suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Uma give Ayah much of Uma's clothing?

2. When does Mira-Masi occasionally appear at Uma's home?

3. How does Uma get home from her trip she sneaks off to make?

4. What does Uma spend her life doing?

5. Why does Uma seldom have privacy anymore by Chapter 4?

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