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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Deepak do to try to heal Amisha in Chapter 49?
(a) He beats her.
(b) He brings home herbal medicine.
(c) He feeds her rice.
(d) He gives her buttermilk.

2. What does Ravi admit to Jaya about Stephen in Chapter 52?
(a) That Stephen watched Amisha die.
(b) That Stephen never loved Amisha.
(c) That Stephen was secretly married.
(d) That Stephen came back for Amisha.

3. Who is Deepak's sister?
(a) Chara.
(b) Harini.
(c) Janna.
(d) Janini.

4. What sort of art does Ravi's daughter-in-law make?
(a) Necklaces.
(b) Watercolors.
(c) Oil paintings.
(d) Pottery.

5. What does Deepak announce about Stephen in Chapter 38?
(a) That Stephen is married.
(b) That he is leaving to fight in the war.
(c) That Stephen was killed in a street quarrel.
(d) That Stephen closed the school.

6. What is used in the celebration of Holi?
(a) Kites.
(b) Color-filled balloons.
(c) Native Indian liquor.
(d) Holy water.

7. What does Amisha tell her class about Neema?
(a) That she has been married.
(b) That she was Amisha's favorite student.
(c) That Neema has died.
(d) That Neema has decided not to attend school any longer.

8. What does Amisha tell Stephen concerning her pregnancy in Chapter 41?
(a) That she wants to wants to have the baby in England.
(b) That the child is Deepak's.
(c) That the child is his.
(d) That she wishes she were not pregnant.

9. How does Amisha take her medicine?
(a) She swallows the pills whole.
(b) Ravi crushes it into sherbet.
(c) She takes them with whiskey.
(d) She takes them with buttermilk.

10. How does Deepak's second wife treat Lena?
(a) She beats her.
(b) She pushes Lena academically.
(c) She loves her as though Lena were her own child.
(d) She gives Lena up for adoption.

11. What does Ravi hold at the beginning of the Epilogue?
(a) A letter from Stephen.
(b) A brochure for a children's hospital in America.
(c) His will.
(d) A restaurant menu.

12. What assignment does Amisha give her class?
(a) To write about how their country would change if a woman was their leader.
(b) To write about their favorite movie.
(c) To write about their thoughts on the British Raj.
(d) To write about their favorite childhood memory.

13. How does Amisha become ill?
(a) She is bitten by a mosquito.
(b) She is pregnant again.
(c) She got food poisoning.
(d) Deepak poisoned her.

14. Which deity does Jaya choose to worship?
(a) Krishna.
(b) Ganesha.
(c) Durga.
(d) Shiva.

15. What do the priests do to heal Amisha?
(a) Make an elixir.
(b) Burn incense.
(c) Put lotion on her skin.
(d) Braid her hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Neema betrothed?

2. What does Deepak tell Ravi in Chapter 51?

3. What does Jaya see in front of her home that evening?

4. What does Deepak notice about Amisha's last child?

5. What does Ravi tell Jaya was the cause of Amisha's death?

(see the answer keys)

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