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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 28 - 32 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Antara decide to hand over the task of naming her daughter?
(a) Nani.
(b) Dilip and his mother.
(c) Purvi.
(d) Tara.

2. What is the name of the waiter Tara and Antara meet at a diner while getting sundaes?
(a) Reza Pine.
(b) Govinda Pine.
(c) Roger Pine.
(d) Rita Pane.

3. What does Antara to do try to help her mother remember things in the first chapter?
(a) She pours over photo albums.
(b) She leaves little notes around the house.
(c) She has Tara's mother tell her stories of her childhood.
(d) She sits with her and tells her old stories.

4. Where were the travelers Tara met as a teen at the roadside diner heading to?
(a) Bombay.
(b) The convent school.
(c) The Taj Mahal.
(d) The ashram.

5. What is one ingredient Antara does not say is missing from her mother's dish at the start of Chapter 7?
(a) Potato.
(b) Salt.
(c) Ginger.
(d) Lemon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the reasons Antara's grandmother gives for Tara's forgetfulness?

2. Where does Antara say her mother's history can be found at the end of "1981"?

3. What does Dilip and Antara's neighbor, Mr. Governor, do when he wife visits Bombay?

4. Where does Tara begin to go when she is pregnant and feeling alienated?

5. What is the name of Dilip's aunt who said plucked the hairs from her head when her father did not want her to become a Jain nun?

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