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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. What do Mama and Papa do on occasional evenings at the club?
(a) Play cars.
(b) Swim.
(c) Bet or horse races.
(d) Play shuffleboard.

2. What does the prospective groom's father say that makes Mama want to arrange the marriage with that family?
(a) That the groom is attending school in the U.S.
(b) That the bride would have a servant.
(c) That the groom has an available younger brother for Aruna.
(d) That the bride would live in a fine new home.

3. What two countries are the settings for “Fasting, Feasting”?
(a) The Unites States and Napal.
(b) India and the United States.
(c) The United States and China.
(d) The United States and Malaysia.

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

5. Where do both families go when Aruna and her in-laws are visiting?
(a) To light incense in the temple.
(b) To the movie theater.
(c) To watch fireworks.
(d) To bathe in the Ganges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the room like where Uma is shown at the Ashram?

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

3. What is the disposition of the man interested in marrying Uma?

4. With whom does the man interested in marrying Uma live?

5. Why do Mama and Papa travel to the city after reading the newspaper?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Aruna comes to visit her family several years after her marriage?

2. What do Uma and Ramu do one evening that causes Mama and Papa to be angry?

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

4. How does Mother Agnes respond to Uma's pleas?

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

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

7. Who does Uma call in Chapter 9, and what is the outcome?

8. Why does Papa go and bring Uma back home from her new husband's household and how does he react?

9. What is Uma's life like at the home of her new husband?

10. What does Uma do one night when Mama and Papa have gone out?

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