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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 201 - 245).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kavita sometimes feel about the way other people mourn Vivek?
(a) Other people do not have the right to cry about Vivek because they cannot feel as deeply about the loss of Vivek as she does.
(b) Other people are mourning Vivek in strange ways, like bringing flowers to his grave.
(c) Other people are not mourning Vivek appropriately.
(d) Other people can mourn Vivek by going to church more often.

2. Why does Maja refuse to go to a dentist?
(a) She is afraid of the dentist.
(b) It is supposed to be bad luck to visit the dentist.
(c) She does not have the money since Charles left them.
(d) She likes to do her own dentistry.

3. Where does Kavita want Vivek to go to college?
(a) Spain.
(b) America.
(c) United Kingdom.
(d) Russia.

4. Who tells Vivek his grandmother died on the same day he was born?
(a) Mary.
(b) Raja.
(c) Rhatha.
(d) Kavita.

5. Why does Kavita not offer the girls and Osita anything to eat or drink in Chapter Twenty-two?
(a) They are children and she is long past caring about niceties.
(b) It is a breach of manners to offer such things after a death.
(c) She forgets.
(d) She does not like them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens the same day Vivek dies?

2. What music does Juju play for Osita in Chapter Nineteen that had been Vivek's favorite?

3. What does Somto feed Vivek on the day he dies?

4. How does Kavita find out about Vivek's death?

5. Why does Vivek say Osita's love life is his business in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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