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

2. What does Jaya's mother tell her about meditation?
(a) It is best accomplished through yoga.
(b) It will help Jaya to have a child.
(c) To find peace, she has to cede control of life.
(d) It is helpful in times of financial difficulty.

3. Whom does Jaya call in Chapter 43?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Ravi.
(c) Patrick.
(d) Her father.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Deepak find out about Lena's real father?

2. Who brings Ravi to the hospital?

3. Where does Ravi die?

4. Where do Jaya and Ravi visit on a tour bus?

5. How does Deepak's second wife treat Lena?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Deepak's second wife resent Amisha?

2. Why does Ravi insist that the children stay at his home in Chapter 39?

3. How does Jaya learn of Ravi's death?

4. For what does Amit pray in the temple in Chapter 43?

5. What does Stephen propose to Amisha in Chapter 41?

6. To whom does Jaya give her basket filled with color-balloons?

7. For what does Jaya pray at the temple in Chapter 43?

8. Why does Deepak dismiss Ravi from his role as a servant in Chapter 51?

9. Why does Amisha seduce Deepak in Chapter 40?

10. In an Indian wedding, what do the coconut and rice symbolize?

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