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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 is Mr. Patton doing as Arun arrives at the home?
(a) Mowing the yard.
(b) Washing the dog.
(c) Grilling steaks.
(d) Clipping hedges.

2. Why does Arun jump into the water and lands in a belly flop?
(a) He is shocked because Mrs. Patton removes all her clothes.
(b) He is showing off for Melanie.
(c) He doesn't know how to drive.
(d) A bee is chasing him and he is trying to get away.

3. What does Mama say when she pounds on Uma's door in Chapter 12?
(a) That Papa wishes to apologize.
(b) For Uma to go give the cook instructions.
(c) That someone is there to see Uma.
(d) That Mama is sorry for being so demanding.

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

5. Why does Arun decline Rod and his father's invitation to join them?
(a) Arun wants to call his father.
(b) Arun is going out with a couple boys from India.
(c) Arun is tired and wants to sleep.
(d) Arun does not feel part of the family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does receiving an aerogramme from Papa irritate Arun?

2. What does Arun have difficulty comprehending?

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

4. What does Arun begin to do in order to be more like Americans?

5. Where does Dr. Dutt want Uma to work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Rod Patton like?

2. What does Arun think upon walking to the Patton house for the first time?

3. How does Arun feel about his life in the United States?

4. What does Arun begin doing and why?

5. What do Arun and Mrs. Patton have in common?

6. What happens one particularly hot and dusty day with Uma?

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

8. How does Arun feel when he finds Mrs. Patton sunbathing one day?

9. How has Mrs. Patton changed over the course of the summer?

10. How does the cashier at the grocery store upset Mrs. Patton and what does she ask Arun concerning the situation?

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