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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 one diagnosis Laura receives?
(a) Borderline Personality Disorder.
(b) Lillington's Disorder.
(c) Harper's Sundrome.
(d) Fallington's Syndrome.

2. When does Naomi have a cesarean section?
(a) June 2009.
(b) January 2010.
(c) May 2002.
(d) March 2005.

3. Where does Naomi eventually move after prison?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) A church.
(c) A park.
(d) A Minnesota Security Hospital.

4. Where does Laura spend Thanksgiving the year she is 25?
(a) California.
(b) India.
(c) Maine.
(d) England.

5. What happens to the shelter for the mentally ill in Erwadi?
(a) It catches fire.
(b) It is profiled as an example of an institution that works well for people.
(c) It is expanded.
(d) It is torn down.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills her children in 1998?

2. What kind of ball does Laura go to?

3. What does Aviv call the man who rescued Naomi from the river?

4. Between which years did the number of U.S. Social Security disability claims rise?

5. What famous person is Laura related to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do people eventually begin to think of Bapu in the last years of her life?

2. What is one reason Naomi and her siblings and mother move a lot when she is young?

3. What does Naomi's family begin to notice about her after the birth of her twins?

4. What does Naomi do on July 4, 2003?

5. What does Naomi know about the circumstances of her own birth?

6. What does Laura Delano think of herself when Aviv first introduces her in Part IV?

7. What topic is Naomi very passionate about?

8. What does Laura feel for the first time in a very long time following her suicide attempt?

9. What had Naomi always felt was incompatible with being a Black woman?

10. What does Bhargavi eventually begin to feel in her proximity to death?

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