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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Koly do when Sass tells her to give Chandra the silver earrings for her wedding day?
(a) She spits on the ground.
(b) She gives them to Chandra.
(c) She refuses and walks away.
(d) She lies and says she has lost them.

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

3. What activity does Koly undertake to remember Hari and to soothe her soul?
(a) She sews a special sari.
(b) She makes a quilt.
(c) She writes a poem.
(d) She plants a mango tree and tends to it.

4. How does Koly feel about not being allowed to help Chandra dress on her wedding day?
(a) Furious.
(b) Very disappointed.
(c) She doesn't care.
(d) Relieved.

5. How does Koly travel to meet her groom?
(a) On a train.
(b) By rickshaw.
(c) On a bus.
(d) She walks.

6. Where does Koly's wedding ceremony take place?
(a) The bride's home.
(b) The sacred temple.
(c) The groom's home.
(d) The town center near the well.

7. Why is a doctor called on Hari's first night in Varanasi?
(a) He has developed a rash.
(b) To get a second opinion.
(c) To administer medicine to make him strong.
(d) He has a coughing attack.

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

9. What does Koly hear Sass and Sassur discussing on the evening she overhears them in the courtyard in Chapter 5?
(a) Chandra's dowry.
(b) Hari's illness.
(c) Koly's dowry.
(d) Sass's illness.

10. Who accompanies Koly to her prospective husband's home?
(a) Her parents.
(b) Her parents and brothers.
(c) Her father and her brothers.
(d) Just her father.

11. How does Koly feel as she watches Chandra leave with her new husband?
(a) Determined to leave the Mehta's.
(b) Strangely tired.
(c) As if there is hope for her, too.
(d) As if all her happiness is leaving.

12. How does Koly's mother make money?
(a) She teaches.
(b) She is a wash woman.
(c) She is a medicine woman.
(d) She makes and sells saris.

13. When does Koly work on the activity she undertakes to remember Hari and soothe her soul?
(a) Only late at night.
(b) When she goes to the river.
(c) Whenever Sass leaves.
(d) Early in the morning.

14. How does Sass want Koly to help with Hari's breakfast her first morning after the wedding?
(a) She tells Koly to cook breakfast and eat with her husband.
(b) She does not want Koly to take care of Hari.
(c) She wants Koly to fetch milk and eggs.
(d) She tells Koly to cook and serve him breakfast.

15. Who escorts Hari's body to be cremated?
(a) The men.
(b) His parents and his wife.
(c) His parents.
(d) The Lals and the Mehtas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Koly sleep on her wedding night?

2. What do Koly and her mother prepare for Koly's wedding?

3. Who meets Hari and his family in Varanasi?

4. What is Koly told about the husband her parents have chosen for her?

5. When Sass finally allows Koly to go sit with Hari, what do they do?

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