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

2. What particularly strikes Arun as he is walking to the Patton home?
(a) The tidy homes amidst verdant landscape.
(b) That Mrs. Patton is allowing an unmarried male to stay in the same home with her daughters.
(c) That the Pattons do not even know he is from India.
(d) The irony of going to live with Americans, which he used to want to do but no longer does.

3. What does Arun receive before he leaves for the dormitory?
(a) A letter from his betrothed in India.
(b) A package from Uma.
(c) A cancellation of his engagement from his betrothed family in India.
(d) A letter denying Arun financial aid at school.

4. How does Uma's family get news of Anamika's death?
(a) Her husband arrives to tell them.
(b) Her mother-in-law arrives to tell them.
(c) The police come and tell them.
(d) A telegram.

5. What does the cashier ask Mrs. Patton at the grocery store?
(a) If Melanie is feeling better.
(b) If Mr. Patton still wants his weekly meat order.
(c) If Rod has a date yet for the social at the country club.
(d) If Mrs. Patton is pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Mrs. Patton question Arun on the way home from the grocery store?

2. To what does Mrs. O'Henry invite Uma in Chapter 10?

3. What does Arun like about staying at the Patton home?

4. What was Arun expected to do every night after school?

5. Why does Mr. Patton appear annoyed after he brings the meat in from the grill?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Arun try to get the courage to tell Mrs. Patton?

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

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

4. Describe Arun's first encounter with Melanie Patton.

5. What does Uma say about Mira-Masi?

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

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

8. What does Dr. Dutt want when she comes one day to visit?

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

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

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