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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Keep Chandra with her.
(d) Run away.

2. What best describes Koly's bandicoot?
(a) Ugly with tiny eyes and large pointed ears.
(b) Aggressive with an angry black stripe down its middle.
(c) Fearful and thin.
(d) Cuddly and soft with chesnut brown fur.

3. What does Koly do each morning after Chandra is gone?
(a) Reads a poem to Sassur.
(b) Sets a place for her at the table.
(c) Plays a tune on the small lute.
(d) Makes a puja at the kitchen shrine.

4. Why does Maa Kamala keep half of Koly's pay?
(a) To pay for beading supplies.
(b) To pay for her living expenses.
(c) To pay for her trouble.
(d) To put into a savings account for Koly.

5. What do Koly and Tanu do for work on Koly's first morning at Maa Kamala's?
(a) They make bangles from beads.
(b) They embroider saris.
(c) They do laundry.
(d) They string marigolds for garlands.

6. What job is Koly told she will have in Chapter 8?
(a) Stringing marigolds.
(b) Cleaning the widow's home.
(c) Washing laundry.
(d) Helping widows at the government office.

7. Why does Raji tell Koly he is living in the city?
(a) To start a factory with his uncle.
(b) To save money for seeds.
(c) To make money to send to his wife.
(d) To help his mother.

8. What happens when Sass decides to sell the Tagore book for some extra money?
(a) Koly gives her the silver earrings instead.
(b) She discovers money in the back flap.
(c) It is stolen in town before she can sell it.
(d) Koly hides it from her.

9. Why does Chandra visit her parents' home in the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Because Sassur is gravely ill.
(b) He husband has business nearby.
(c) For Sassur's funeral.
(d) To get a bassinet from a neighbor.

10. What does Chandra tell Koly about her new husband?
(a) He is lazy.
(b) He works late every night.
(c) He makes good money.
(d) He is cruel.

11. Who comes to see Koly the day after she returns to work in chapter 10 after being sick?
(a) Sass.
(b) Raji.
(c) Tanu.
(d) Chandra.

12. How does Koly sneak out to go to Mala's party after Maa Kamala tells her that she cannot go?
(a) She says she is going to a movie with Shrew.
(b) She says she is going to a movie with Tanu.
(c) She gets Raji to pick her up in the courtyard.
(d) She sneaks out after Maa Kamala is asleep.

13. What does Sass do to make money for her and Koly to live on?
(a) Sells her own possessions.
(b) Does laundry.
(c) Sells the widow's sari she had given to Koly.
(d) Hires Koly out as a servant.

14. Where does Sassur go when Sass tries to speak to him regarding difficulties in the house in Chapter 6?
(a) To the roof.
(b) To the temple.
(c) To the river.
(d) To his school.

15. What happens to the food in the Mehta household as Sass eats less and less?
(a) Sass and Koly share it with the family next door.
(b) Sass allows a boarder to stay and share their meals.
(c) Koly eats more and feels stronger than she has in years.
(d) Sass is even stingier with it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true of Sass during Chandra's first visit home?

2. What do Koly and the women at the widow's home sometimes do after dinner?

3. What does Koly see in the marketplace on her way home from the government office in Chapter 6?

4. What is true of life at the Mehta's home once Chandra is married?

5. Who is Maa Kamala?

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