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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 Deepak give to Amisha in Chapter 47?
(a) Flowers.
(b) A new sari.
(c) A new puppy.
(d) The keys to the school.

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

3. Why does Omi deny Lena's desired marriage?
(a) Omi does not trust the man's family.
(b) Omi does not want Lena to go to America.
(c) Omi wants the man for herself.
(d) The dowry is too high.

4. Why does Deepak forbid Amisha from teaching at the school?
(a) He knows about her attraction to Stephen.
(b) He resents the British.
(c) He thinks she is neglecting her duties as a mother.
(d) He reads Neema's story.

5. What does Stephen tell Amisha about his ideal wife?
(a) That she is Indian.
(b) That she is English.
(c) That she is wealthy.
(d) That she is his friend and confidant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ravi ultimately agree to whip Amisha?

2. What does Amisha tell Deepak (whom she thinks is Stephen) about their daughter?

3. What does Amit want to be when he grows up?

4. What does Jaya tell Ravi about her mother in Chapter 52?

5. Whom does Ravi see at the foot of his bed in the Epilogue?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How to Stephen and Amisha communicate after she stops teaching at the school?

3. How does Ravi learn about Lena's marriage prospects?

4. What does Omi call Lena?

5. What does Amisha tell Stephen about the Indian wedding custom?

6. Why does Amisha seduce Deepak in Chapter 40?

7. Why does Jaya want to bring Misha and Amit to America?

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

9. What is the day of Raksha Bandhan?

10. What does Ravi tell Jaya caused Amisha's hallucinations?

(see the answer keys)

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