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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antara notice about the woman she saw crying in the ashram at the start of Chapter 9?
(a) Her eyes were rolling in her head.
(b) She had no tears.
(c) She was bleeding.
(d) She was laughing too.

2. How long after Tara's marriage was Antara born?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 2 months.

3. What is the name of the man Kali Mata meets who takes her to India?
(a) Bodhi.
(b) Govinda.
(c) Devendra.
(d) Ganesha.

4. Who does Antara share a room with during her time at the ashram?
(a) Kali Mata.
(b) Tara.
(c) Baba.
(d) Sita.

5. What does the doctor's drawing of the brain in Chapter 1 look like to Antara?
(a) A computer system.
(b) A plumbing system.
(c) A fluffy cloud.
(d) A brain.

6. What does Tara say Antara smelled like in Chapter 10, which signified to her she had her period?
(a) Ginger.
(b) Pineapple.
(c) Sweat.
(d) Banana.

7. In the first chapter, what does Antara wish was legal in India like it is in the Netherlands?
(a) Assisted suicide.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Prostitution.

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

9. How long of a walk is it from Antara's house to her mother's?
(a) 5 minutes.
(b) 1.5 hours.
(c) 45 minutes.
(d) 2 hours.

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

11. What happens to Kali Mata's mother-in-law, Grandma June, at the age of 59?
(a) She dies suddenly.
(b) She is diagnosed with cancer.
(c) Her husband leaves her.
(d) She remarries.

12. What does Antara's grandmother say about her mother at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) That she was a good mother.
(b) That she will be okay.
(c) That she was always a problem.
(d) That she has gained a lot of weight.

13. What other family member does Antara's Nani say was forgetful?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her great-grandmother.

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

15. What does Nani say she remembers when Antara tells her that the moon has not been this close to the earth since 1948, the year she was born?
(a) She remembers seeing the moon.
(b) She has seen the moon closer since them.
(c) She remembers that year.
(d) She had her daughter on a full moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which animal killing in a zoo has turned Dilip into a vegetarian at the start of Chapter 8?

2. Why does Antara wash her sheets everyday?

3. What is Tara doing at Dilip and Antara's apartment at the start of the third chapter?

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

5. In Chapter 10, who does Antara say she always consider ageless until they died unexpectedly at home?

(see the answer keys)

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