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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Arun expected to do every night after school?
(a) Help his father in his law office.
(b) Study with his tutors.
(c) Get physically fit.
(d) Tutor his sisters.

2. What is particularly "foreign" to Arun at college?
(a) The lack of respect during lectures.
(b) The football games.
(c) The familiarity of the men and women at social gatherings.
(d) The weekend paries.

3. For what was it Papa's job to prepare Arun?
(a) To take care of his sisters.
(b) Marriage.
(c) To know his superiority to females.
(d) The world of business.

4. What does Dr. Dutt want of Uma?
(a) For her to be a nanny for an English couple.
(b) For her to be a nanny for an American couple.
(c) Her help in running a nurses' dorm.
(d) For help in setting up a nursery.

5. What is Mr. Patton doing as Arun arrives at the home?
(a) Mowing the yard.
(b) Clipping hedges.
(c) Washing the dog.
(d) Grilling steaks.

6. Where is Melanie when Arun leaves the Patton household at the end of the book?
(a) Locked in her bedroom.
(b) At the movies with Rod.
(c) In an institution for those with eating disorders.
(d) Out with her boyfriend.

7. What appealed to Arun about the idea of a room in a boarding house?
(a) Being completely on his own.
(b) Becoming invisable.
(c) Privacy.
(d) Saving money.

8. What does Arun not have the heart to tell Mrs. Patton?
(a) He cannot eat many of the vegetables for sale in the grocery store.
(b) He hates the United States.
(c) Vegetarian cooking in India is totally different from American vegetarian cooking.
(d) His family does not believe in playing cards.

9. Of what is Rod aware concerning Melanie?
(a) That she skips school regularly.
(b) That she is bulimic.
(c) That she is failing two classes at school.
(d) That she has a boy in her room.

10. Why does Mr. Patton appear annoyed after he brings the meat in from the grill?
(a) Because the dog grabbed one of the hamburgers.
(b) Because Melanie is still trying to catch the dog.
(c) Because Mrs. Patton tells him Arun is a vegetarian.
(d) Because Mrs. Patton criticizes his grilling effort.

11. What almost physically repulses Arun on his next shopping trip with Mrs. Patton?
(a) The overweight people with shopping carts in the grocery store.
(b) Melanie's reaction to the food.
(c) The volume and choices in the grocery store.
(d) The smells in the grocery store.

12. What annoys Mr. Patton about Rod and Melanie?
(a) That they have told Arun some family secrets.
(b) That they do not want to go on summer vacation.
(c) That they have decided to become vegetarian also.
(d) That they do not do any chores around the house.

13. What does Arun try to gain courage to do?
(a) Mention Melanie's eating disorder to Mrs. Patton.
(b) Tell Mr. Patton that the daily meat grilling is sickening.
(c) Tell Melanie he will help her.
(d) Tell the Pattons he is moving into his own apartment.

14. What does Arun give Mrs. Patton as a parting gift?
(a) The shawl and tea.
(b) A book on meditation.
(c) A vegetarian cookbook.
(d) Nothing.

15. In Chapter 11, what does Mrs. Joshi encourage Uma to consider doing?
(a) Going to stay with Aruna for a while.
(b) Getting a job.
(c) Going to visit her brother in England.
(d) Joining the convent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Patton confront Melanie's refusal?

2. What does Arun begin to do in order to be more like Americans?

3. What is the implication of Mama's illness for Uma?

4. What does Arun like about staying at the Patton home?

5. What does Arun see Melanie eating in the kitchen in Chapter 25?

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