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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 does Mrs. Patton question Arun on the way home from the grocery store?
(a) If Rod has a girlfriend.
(b) If Mrs. Patton looks fat.
(c) If he likes Melanie.
(d) If Melanie is still throwing up regularly.

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

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

4. What does Arun find when he tires of the water and swims ashore?
(a) Both Melanie and Mrs. Patton are nowhere to be found.
(b) Mrs Patton is asleep.
(c) Melanie is asleep.
(d) Rod has arrived.

5. What does Melanie vehemently refuse the next morning?
(a) To take Rod with her to a party that night.
(b) A ride to school.
(c) To ride the school bus because her car is broken.
(d) Scrambled eggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Anamika's neighbors say is the cause of Anamika's death?

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

3. What does Melanie eat after leaving the meal Arun cooks?

4. What does Papa write to Arun about Mrs. Patton?

5. What is the result of Arun's cooking venture?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Mama and Papa respond to Uma's outburst in Chapter 12?

2. What is Rod Patton like?

3. What does Arun discover when he takes a walk into the woods?

4. What is Arun's reaction to his first trip to the grocery store with Mrs. Patton?

5. What does Mrs. Patton say upon hearing that Arun is a vegetarian?

6. Why does Arun go with Mrs. Patton and Melanie to the swim hole even though he does not wish to do so?

7. How does Mrs. Patton feel about Arun being in her home?

8. What does Uma say about Mira-Masi?

9. What does Anamika's husband say about her death, and how do the neighbors contradict him?

10. What were Mama's and Papa's jobs concerning their children?

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