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

2. What does Papa do professionally?
(a) Becomes involved in politics.
(b) Begins winning famous trials.
(c) Becomes a judge.
(d) Retires from his law practice.

3. What does Uma do when she finds the person for whom she is searching in Chapter 3?
(a) She collapses.
(b) She slaps him.
(c) She pleads with him for a job.
(d) She greets her calmly and happily.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Papa act once he gets home from the hospital after Mama delivers a baby boy?

2. About what religion does Mira-Masi tell stories to Uma and Aruna?

3. Where does Uma sneak off to one day?

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

5. To what kind of life do Uma and Arun resign themselves?

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