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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Chandra's wedding sari come from?
(a) Chandra makes it herself.
(b) Koly makes it for her.
(c) It is Koly's from her own wedding.
(d) Chandra's mother gives it to her.

2. What does Koly see being placed in the baggage car of the train before they embark on their trip to Varanasi?
(a) Live animals.
(b) Many urns.
(c) Her traveling chest.
(d) Her quilt.

3. What do Koly and the women at the widow's home sometimes do after dinner?
(a) They sing.
(b) Koly reads poems to them.
(c) Tanu plays a small harp for them.
(d) Maa Kamala teaches them to read.

4. What does Koly embroider on the quilt that she makes for Chandra's wedding gift?
(a) Pictures of Hari and Chandra as children.
(b) A scene from a Tagore poem.
(c) The silver earrings.
(d) Memories of the good times the two girls shared.

5. What is a Chula?
(a) A prayer.
(b) A small stove.
(c) A quilt of remembrance.
(d) A poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Koly travel to meet her groom?

2. What finally gives Koly the courage to approach the man in the government office about her pension?

3. Why do Sass and Sassur argue after the doctor's visit in Chapter 2?

4. What does Hari collect?

5. Why is a doctor called on Hari's first night in Varanasi?

(see the answer key)

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