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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. Where does Bud first meet Jasmine?
(a) In a bank.
(b) On the street.
(c) In the grocery store.
(d) At his mother's house.

2. What does Bud call Jasmine?
(a) Justine.
(b) Jase.
(c) Jane.
(d) Jazzy.

3. Jasmine's injury is tended to by whom?
(a) The servants.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her sisters.

4. Who said "very, very, very Indian, Jassy"?
(a) Taylor.
(b) Little Clyde.
(c) Bud.
(d) Mother Ripplemeyer.

5. Who died from being gored by a bull?
(a) Pitaji.
(b) Masterji.
(c) Professorji.
(d) Nirmala.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Jasmine in the beginning of the novel?

2. Who came down from an ashram after Jasmine was widowed?

3. Who is Jasmine disagreeing with in the beginning of the story?

4. Whom does Jasmine see from her kitchen window riding a tractor in neighboring farm fields?

5. Whom did Jasmine stay with at the hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what experience does Jasmine recall, that clarifies what she does not want to become?

2. When Jasmine returns to the family home, what does she enlist her brothers to help her do?

3. What does Jasmine reveal to Wylie that causes Wylie to shriek in outrage?

4. Whom did Prakash marry, and where and how did they meet?

5. Jasmine talks about two chores, one she did at dawn and the other at dusk. What are they?

6. What thoughts are running through Jasmine's head as she encounters a drunk Darrel, and as she drives him back to his farm?

7. Why does Du give his mom a loaded rifle?

8. What did the letters Masterji read to his students reveal about American farmers?

9. Jasmine has no one to pick her up at the American shore. What happens when she accepts a ride?

10. What happened to Jasmine and the Ugandan man?

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