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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 eat after leaving the meal Arun cooks?
(a) Chocolate chip cookies.
(b) Hershey bars.
(c) A package of Oreo cookies.
(d) Half a jar of peanut butter.

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

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

4. To what does Arun contrast his life at the Patton household?
(a) To the quiet of his life growing up.
(b) To some of the sitcoms he watches on television.
(c) To the noisy, cluttered life he shared with him family in India.
(d) To the lack of expectations at the Patton household.

5. Why does Arun go with Mrs. Patton and Melanie even though he does not want to do so?
(a) He cannot think of a reasonable excuse.
(b) He feels pity for Mrs. Patton.
(c) He hopes to be a good influence on Melanie.
(d) He wants to get out of the way of Mr. Patton, who is angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Arun decline Rod and his father's invitation to join them?

2. What does Melanie vehemently refuse the next morning?

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

4. How do Mama and Papa feel about Uma’s invitation from Mrs. O'Henry?

5. How does Arun feel when he goes with Mrs. Patton to the grocery store?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Arun begin doing and why?

2. What does Mrs. Joshi suggest that Uma consider, and what are Uma's thoughts about it?

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

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

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

6. How does Arun feel when he receives an aerogramme from Papa?

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

8. What does Melanie say in Chapter 25 about her mother's sunbathing?

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

10. To what does Mrs. O'Henry invite Uma, and what do her parents feel about the event?

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