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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 does the letter received by Jaya's mother read?
(a) She is invited to her bother's wedding in India.
(b) Jaya's mother's sister is dying.
(c) Her mother's father is dying in India.
(d) Jaya receives a love letter from India.

2. For whom does Jaya remember her mother cooking?
(a) For Jaya and her father.
(b) For children in an orphanage in New York.
(c) For Jaya's schoolteacher.
(d) For a family whose father was diagnosed with cancer.

3. Whom does Amisha encounter at the temple in Chapter 13?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Brahmins.
(c) Deepak.
(d) Vikram.

4. What is the name of Jaya's husband?
(a) Amit.
(b) Patrick.
(c) Henry.
(d) Richard.

5. Where do Amisha and Stephen walk together?
(a) In the basement of the school.
(b) In the marketplace near the school.
(c) Outside Amisha's home.
(d) In the garden of the school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Stephen have Amisha pronounce during a lesson?

2. What does the women whom Amisha meets at the school ask her?

3. What did Jaya and her mother dress up as for Halloween when Jaya was 12 years old?

4. What is "chaniya choli?"

5. What is a "bindi?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Neema's father tell Amisha about her class?

2. What are the contents of Amisha's Christmas gift to Stephen?

3. How does Jaya know where to go when she arrives in India?

4. What is Jaya's reaction to Ravi's home?

5. What does Jaya see in the road when she takes a taxi to her grandfather's village?

6. How does Amisha tell Stephen that Indians celebrate Navaratri?

7. What is the first story of Neema's that Amisha reads?

8. What does Jaya buy for her parents at the market in Chapter 27?

9. What does Ravi get for Amisha on her first day of school?

10. What is the significance of the "bindi" in Indian culture?

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