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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are computers viewed by Chandra and Sass?
(a) Chandra is impressed and Sass is suspicious.
(b) Both feel that computers are a promising industry.
(c) Chandra is bored and Sass is impressed.
(d) Both fear that Sass will lose his job to computers.

2. What is one reason that Sass gives for being so resentful of Koly?
(a) She is an extra mouth to feed.
(b) Her dowry was too low.
(c) She cannot read.
(d) She is a poor cook.

3. What does Koly tell Chandra she wants to do during Chandra's first visit home after her marriage?
(a) Make a quilt for her child.
(b) Get a job.
(c) Run away.
(d) Keep Chandra with her.

4. What does Sass give to Koly after Hari's death?
(a) Money.
(b) A black cotton sari.
(c) A train ticket.
(d) A white cotton sari.

5. What best describes the mood at the Mehta home right after Hari's death?
(a) Quiet and tense.
(b) Purposeful with preparations for the final spiritual meal.
(c) Busy from visiting mourners.
(d) Painful and loud with angry voices.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hari collect?

2. What object of Hari's does Koly ask Sassur if she can have?

3. Why does Koly begin to enjoy her clothes washing time at the river after Hari's death in Chapter 4?

4. How does Koly feel when it is time to leave Sass's house?

5. Who tells Koly of Hari's death?

(see the answer key)

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