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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 does Mrs. Joshi say about the groom's family?
(a) They have a reputation for honor.
(b) They are from the lower class.
(c) They would be very bad for Uma.
(d) They have a reputation for being unscrupulous.

2. Why do female relatives send pictures to Mama and Papa?
(a) To start searching for a husband for Aruna.
(b) To start searching for a husband for Uma.
(c) To start searching for a wife for Arun.
(d) They are not sending pictures as Uma refuses marriage.

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

4. 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 is bitter that another male is being coddled.
(c) Her school work is suffering.
(d) She loves everything about it.

5. What does Uma regret about the trip with Aruna and Aruna's in-laws?
(a) That she was saved from sinking into the river.
(b) That her parents would not allow her to watch the movie.
(c) That the fireworks had to be cancelled after one burst.
(d) That the temple did not have any cards.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what religion does Mira-Masi tell stories to Uma and Aruna?

2. Why does Papa come to where Uma is staying after she is married?

3. How does Uma get home from her trip she sneaks off to make?

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

5. Where does Uma accompany Mira-Masi when the old woman visits?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do Uma and Aruna respond to news of their mother's pregnancy?

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

5. Why does Papa want the family to eat meat, and who will not do so?

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

7. How does Uma feel about Mira-Masi?

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

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

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

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