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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 is Koly's role in Chandra's wedding ceremony?
(a) Flower thrower.
(b) Sister of the bride.
(c) Common servant.
(d) Bearer of gifts.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. Why does Koly's father sometimes refuse payment for his work?
(a) He believes it is his obligation to help the community.
(b) His clients are very poor.
(c) He is being blackmailed into it.
(d) He is passionate about his work.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are computers viewed by Chandra and Sass?

2. What is Koly's first impression of her new husband?

3. What does Chandra tell Koly about her dowry?

4. What does Sassur tell Koly immediately after she learns of Hari's death?

5. How does Koly feel as she watches Chandra leave with her new husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Koly's first morning as a married woman.

2. What does Koly do to try to soothe her grief over being a widow and her poor treatment by Sass in Chapter 4?

3. Explain what Koly's daydreams consist of in Chapter 4, after Hari's death.

4. Describe the evening of, and the events leading up to, Hari's death.

5. Describe Koly's first meetings with her new family.

6. What happens when Koly and the Mehtas arrive in Varanasi that indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Mehta are embarrassed that they married Hari so young and for the money?

7. What is Koly's impression of Varanasi?

8. Tell about Koly's first meeting with her new husband.

9. Why is Chandra impressed by the qualifications of her intended husband?

10. Why does Sass treat Koly so poorly?

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