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One Part Woman Quiz

Perumal Murugan

This Study Guide consists of approximately 44 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of One Part Woman.

One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan

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One Part Woman Quiz

Perumal Murugan

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why does Ponna become uncomfortable when Mana and his family join her cart? (from Chapters 22-28)

She is worried he will see her and tell Kali where she is.

She is worried he will ask her to take one of his children for her own.

She is worried he will judge her for coming to the festival without Kali.

She is worried he will ask if she has any children of her own.

2.

According to the men in his community, how must one prove himself a real man? (from Chapters 8-14)

By allowing his wife to go to the eighteenth day of the festival.

By attending the eighteenth day of the festival as a god.

By inducing morning sickness in his wife within the second month of marriage.

By inducing morning sickness in his wife within the first year of marriage.

3.

In Kali's memory of Ponna's despair in Chapter 34, what does Ponna demand he do? (from Chapters 29-34)

To allow her to go to the festival so she can have a child.

To go somewhere and get her a child.

To marry another woman so he can finally have a child.

To steal Mandayan's child on her behalf.

4.

Why does Kali allow his palm trees to grow? (from Chapters 15-21)

To prove that he does not care about his land.

To prove that he is capable of growing lucious vegetation.

To give the blackbirds a place to nest.

To keep the blackbirds from nesting in them.

5.

To whom is the eighteenth day of the festival devoted? (from Chapters 29-34)

The one part woman god Devatha.

The mother-father god Sadayappan, and the half-female god Devatha.

The half-female god, Maadhorubaagan, and the mother-father god Ammaiyappan.

To all women who have been unable to conceive children, and to all men who desire to sleep with them.

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