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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antara say she enjoyed killing as a child?
(a) Worms.
(b) Slugs.
(c) Spiders.
(d) Ants.

2. How did Tara begin dressing as a teen, which her grandmother said was old-fashioned compared to her peers?
(a) In all black.
(b) In long flowery skirts.
(c) In all white.
(d) in dresses with high collars.

3. What part of their apartment makes Tara uncomfortable, but was a selling point for Dilip?
(a) The small kitchen.
(b) The large size.
(c) The many mirrors.
(d) The loud doorbell.

4. Where did Antara begin to collect things as a child?
(a) School.
(b) Her mother's room.
(c) The backyard.
(d) Her grandmother's house.

5. What did Tara's mother-in-law suggest Tara do just before her husband got home?
(a) Prepare his dinner.
(b) Wait by the door.
(c) Prepare him a drink.
(d) Put on a new dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one ingredient Antara does not say is missing from her mother's dish at the start of Chapter 7?

2. What is the name of the man Kali Mata meets who takes her to India?

3. What does Tara's mother-in-law decide she would do when she learned Tara was pregnant?

4. What does the narrator say she has found joy in at times in regards to her mother?

5. Why does Antara's father chastise her when she visits him in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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