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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 appealed to Arun about the idea of a room in a boarding house?
(a) Privacy.
(b) Being completely on his own.
(c) Becoming invisable.
(d) Saving money.

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

3. What does Arun like to do as an escape?
(a) Play games with his toys.
(b) Read comic book.
(c) Talk with his sisters.
(d) Write silly plays.

4. What does Uma do that astonishes Papa in Chapter 12?
(a) Lectures her parents on gratitude.
(b) Serves the coffee herself.
(c) Spills the coffee all over herself and Papa.
(d) Tells her parents she is unhappy.

5. Why does receiving an aerogramme from Papa irritate Arun?
(a) He feels Papa is monitoring him all the way from India.
(b) Other students make fun of his Papa's involvement in Arun's life.
(c) He thinks Papa does not trust him to find his own way.
(d) Arun does not find it irritating.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Around what does Rod Patton's life revolve?

3. What are Rod and father doing when Arun gets to the house after declining Rod's invitation?

4. What is particularly "foreign" to Arun at college?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Uma say about Mira-Masi?

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

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

10. What does Arun receive from Uma before he moves out of the Patton home?

(see the answer keys)

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