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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what are Uma and Aruna disappointed concerning Anamika?
(a) That she has refused to consider marriage.
(b) That she is to become pregnant.
(c) That she is to marry a much older man.
(d) That she is to marry a boy who has not even reached his majority.

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

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

4. What does Uma spend her life doing?
(a) Being subservient to her parents' demands.
(b) Plotting revenge.
(c) Searching for the perfect husband.
(d) Working at a floor loom.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What stands in stark contrast to Uma's wedding plans?

3. Why does Aruna gently chide Uma in Chapter 8?

4. What does the prospective groom's family do for a living?

5. How does Uma get to the ashram?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does giving birth to a male child affect Mama's status?

2. What does Mira-Masi tell Uma one day about the mark of the Lord, and how does Uma react?

3. In the opening to the book, what does Uma do while her parents are sitting on the veranda?

4. What does Uma feel about the time she fell into the Ganges and was sinking?

5. Why do Mama and Papa not approve of Ramu?

6. How does Uma and her family learn that the prospective groom is not interested in Uma?

7. What does Mama do each day to prepare Papa for the day?

8. What happens when Aruna comes of age for marriage?

9. How do Aruna's wedding plans differ from those taken when Uma was to marry?

10. What makes one possible husband for Uma not ideal, but why do Mama and Papa decide to negotiate anyway?

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