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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Amisha's friend Sujata think about the British school?
(a) That she wants to find a British husband.
(b) That the whites are trying to convert them.
(c) That she hopes her children will attend.
(d) That she wants to attend.

2. How does Jaya react to her grandmother's death?
(a) She cannot believe her grandmother lived so long.
(b) She wishes she could have died for her grandmother.
(c) She cries.
(d) She thinks Ravi is making up the story.

3. What is Navaratri?
(a) Amisha's birth month.
(b) A honeymoon.
(c) An Indian holiday.
(d) The Indian term for a full moon.

4. What is the name of the man Jaya finds in her mother's childhood home?
(a) George.
(b) Paresh.
(c) Deepak.
(d) Ravi.

5. What does the midwife say about the baby?
(a) She looks like Deepak.
(b) She looks like her mother.
(c) She is dangerously ill/
(d) She is cursed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Amisha become ill?

2. At what age was Amisha pulled out of school?

3. What is the name of Jaya's mother?

4. What does Jaya learn about her grandfather once she arrives in India?

5. What does Amisha ask her class?

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