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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. How do Koly and Sass travel in Vrindavan?
(a) By hansom cab.
(b) They rent bicycles.
(c) On foot.
(d) By rickshaw.

2. What does Sass give Koly while they are in Vrindavan?
(a) 50 rupees.
(b) The silver earrings.
(c) An address.
(d) A name and phone number.

3. What is true of Sass during Chandra's first visit home?
(a) She keeps busy making baby shoes.
(b) She tends to Sassur constantly.
(c) She is in good spirits.
(d) She is sickly.

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

5. Why do Koly's dreams of leaving Sass end in Chapter 7?
(a) Sass becomes ill and Koly cares for her.
(b) Koly becomes ill and dependent on Sass.
(c) She no longer has the silver earrings.
(d) She and Sass become friendly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chandra tell Koly about her new husband?

2. Where does Koly find Sass when she returns from buying their lunches?

3. What are some of the things that Koly does after Chandra leaves to try and please Sass?

4. How does the driver of the rickshaw help Koly to get some food?

5. After Mr. Das chastises Koly for copying someone else's design, what does she embroider for him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Tagore is important to Koly in Chapter 9.

2. Describe Sass's behavior on the train ride to her brother's home.

3. How does the rickshaw driver help Koly in Chapter 8?

4. Describe the two friends that Koly finds in Chapter 6.

5. Describe how Koly's feelings of loneliness change after moving in to Maa Kamala's.

6. Explain how Koly ends up in possession of the Tagore book.

7. How and why does Koly try to please Sass after Chandra is gone?

8. Who is Mala and what is she like?

9. Describe the room that Koly stays in at Maa Kamala's.

10. Explain why Sassur stops reading the Tagore book?

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