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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Arun find in the woods?
(a) Melanie holding a stray cat.
(b) Melanie holding a book of poetry.
(c) Melanie having sex with her boyfriend.
(d) Melanie lying on the ground covered in vomit.

2. About what does Arun wonder if he and Melanie have the same reaction?
(a) The way Mr. and Mrs. Patton fight.
(b) he way Rod seems to live on the fringe of the family.
(c) The way Mr. and Mrs. Patton ignore Melanie's problem.
(d) The gross abundance of food.

3. Around what does Rod Patton's life revolve?
(a) Sports.
(b) Girls.
(c) Camping and hiking.
(d) Technology.

4. Why does receiving an aerogramme from Papa irritate Arun?
(a) He feels Papa is monitoring him all the way from India.
(b) He thinks Papa does not trust him to find his own way.
(c) Arun does not find it irritating.
(d) Other students make fun of his Papa's involvement in Arun's life.

5. Where does Mira-Masi go to live?
(a) She decides to stay near Uma's family.
(b) A temple in the Himalayas.
(c) Back to her family's roots in a tiny town near Pakistan.
(d) An Ashram in southern India.

6. What is Melanie eating when Arun first sees her?
(a) A bagel.
(b) A Babe Ruth bar.
(c) Peanuts.
(d) A donut.

7. What does Arun begin to do in order to be more like Americans?
(a) Play basketball.
(b) Play video games.
(c) Watch telelvision.
(d) Jog.

8. What do Anamika's neighbors say is the cause of Anamika's death?
(a) Accident.
(b) Grief.
(c) Murder.
(d) Suicide.

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

10. What particularly strikes Arun as he is walking to the Patton home?
(a) The irony of going to live with Americans, which he used to want to do but no longer does.
(b) That Mrs. Patton is allowing an unmarried male to stay in the same home with her daughters.
(c) The tidy homes amidst verdant landscape.
(d) That the Pattons do not even know he is from India.

11. What does Uma do that astonishes Papa in Chapter 12?
(a) Serves the coffee herself.
(b) Tells her parents she is unhappy.
(c) Lectures her parents on gratitude.
(d) Spills the coffee all over herself and Papa.

12. How does Mrs. Patton confront Melanie's refusal?
(a) Mrs. Patton slaps Melanie.
(b) Mrs. Patton calls the psychiatrist.
(c) Mrs. Patton calls the principal of the school Melanie attends.
(d) Mrs. Patton does nothing.

13. To what does Arun contrast his life at the Patton household?
(a) To the noisy, cluttered life he shared with him family in India.
(b) To the lack of expectations at the Patton household.
(c) To some of the sitcoms he watches on television.
(d) To the quiet of his life growing up.

14. What does Uma notice about Mira-Masi?
(a) Mira-Masi's vitality seems to be declining.
(b) Mira-Masi's arguments with Papa are lessening in intensity.
(c) Mira-Masi is much more argumentative than usual.
(d) Mira-Masi reaches out more and more to Uma.

15. How does Arun feel when he goes with Mrs. Patton to the grocery store?
(a) Uncomfortable.
(b) Awe and disgust.
(c) Irritated that she drags him along.
(d) Intimidated by all of the choices.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Mother Agnes want Uma's assistance?

2. Where is Melanie when Arun leaves the Patton household at the end of the book?

3. Why does Arun decline Rod and his father's invitation to join them?

4. What almost physically repulses Arun on his next shopping trip with Mrs. Patton?

5. What arrives that is intended to help Arun survive the Massachusetts winter?

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