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

2. Who is Tanu?
(a) Koly's roommate.
(b) A worker at the government office.
(c) An elderly widow.
(d) The woman who sells marigold garlands.

3. What life changing event occurs in Chapter 6?
(a) Sass's brother dies and leaves her an inheritance.
(b) Sassur loses his job.
(c) Sassur dies.
(d) Koly's father dies and she returns home.

4. How does Chandra feel about her marriage?
(a) She is very happy.
(b) She is scared of her husband.
(c) She is very sad.
(d) She feels lonely.

5. Who is Raji?
(a) The marigold garland vendor.
(b) Maa Kamala's son.
(c) The rickshaw driver.
(d) The jewelry vendor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Koly say she hopes will happen if she works very hard after Chandra leaves to get married?

2. Why does Sassur stop reading Tagore's poems after Chandra is gone?

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

4. How does Koly feel at Maa Kamala's home?

5. How does Koly begin to help Raji after he hears her read the poem of the homeless bird?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the service run by Maa Kamala's.

3. Describe Chandra's feelings about her marriage in Chapter 7.

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

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

6. What is the importance of Koly's visit to the government office in Chapter 6?

7. What happens on the day that Koly sees the rickshaw driver at the train station, before he brings her to the widow's home?

8. Who is Mala and what is she like?

9. Describe Koly and Sass's first interaction with the rickshaw driver.

10. Describe Raji's plans for the future as he describes them to Koly in Chapter 9.

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