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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do most people say when Mama approaches them about marriage for Uma?
(a) They are looking for someone younger or more beautiful.
(b) They want someone who is more educated.
(c) They would take Aruna by not Uma.
(d) They want someone with more dowry.

2. Where is Uma left when her new husband leaves for work?
(a) Alone in a flat.
(b) With his children from his previous marriage.
(c) With his brother's in-laws.
(d) With his mother and other female family members.

3. What does Uma collect?
(a) Christmas cards.
(b) Dolls.
(c) Stamps.
(d) Coins.

4. To what kind of life do Uma and Arun resign themselves?
(a) Subservience.
(b) Religious.
(c) Comfort and boredom.
(d) Intellectual stimulation but strict.

5. When does Mira-Masi occasionally appear at Uma's home?
(a) When Mira-Masi needs more money from Papa.
(b) When Mira-Masi is en route to some spiritual adventure or pilgrimage.
(c) When Uma's father demands Mira-Masi's presence.
(d) When Mira-Masi's husband sends her away for some time.

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

7. Where have Mama and Papa gone at the opening to this Chapter 9?
(a) To play cards.
(b) To dinner with Papa's brother.
(c) To the temple.
(d) To a musical recital.

8. Where does Uma go after making her phone call in Chapter 9?
(a) The veranda.
(b) To soak in the tub.
(c) To sleep on the sofa.
(d) Out for a walk.

9. Why does Uma seldom have privacy anymore by Chapter 4?
(a) Her brother bothers her constantly to play with him.
(b) Her parents seldom leave the house.
(c) Her sister is still at home and unmarried and looks to Uma for companionship.
(d) Her mother has two more children.

10. Who is Anamika?
(a) Ramu's wife.
(b) Ramu's cousin.
(c) Uma's best friend.
(d) Ramu's sister.

11. When is the new baby boy born?
(a) Spring.
(b) Early winter.
(c) Mid-summer.
(d) At the end of the summer.

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

13. What irritates Papa when they go to the park?
(a) The barking dogs.
(b) The trash.
(c) The loud music.
(d) The number of people there.

14. Why are Mama and Papa angry when Uma returns home after dinner out with a relative?
(a) She talks back to her parents.
(b) She tells her parents she was with a man.
(c) She is tipsy.
(d) She is very late.

15. Who does Uma call when her parents are out in Chapter 9?
(a) Mrs. O'Henry.
(b) Mira-Masi.
(c) Arun.
(d) Aruna.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Papa do every day after work?

2. Where is Arun at the opening of the novel?

3. How does Mama feel about the trip they make with Aruna’s in-laws?

4. Why do Mama and Papa not approve of what has happened at the opening to Chapter 5?

5. What does Mrs. Joshi say about the groom's family?

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