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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. Where is Dilip from originally?
(a) America.
(b) Ireland.
(c) England.
(d) Canada.
2. Where was Kali Mata born?
(a) Leominster, PA.
(b) Lanesboro, PA.
(c) Louisville, KY.
(d) Lincoln, MS.
3. What does Tara say Antara is always doing when they argue at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Bullying her.
(b) Stealing from her.
(c) Lying to her.
(d) Barging in on her.
4. What is different about the clothing of the woman who offers to help Antara at the ashram in Chapter 9?
(a) It is brightly colored.
(b) It is all black.
(c) She wears slacks.
(d) It looks expensive.
5. In the first chapter, what does Antara wish was legal in India like it is in the Netherlands?
(a) Assisted suicide.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Prostitution.
(d) Heroin.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens to Kali Mata's mother-in-law, Grandma June, at the age of 59?
2. Where does Kali Mata go to stay with her sister after her husband and daughter die?
3. What does Antara say that the doctor has said when Tara acts as though she is fine in Chapter 3?
4. Where does Tara begin to go when she is pregnant and feeling alienated?
5. What does Dilip say when Antara expresses her anger at her mother calling her a liar?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Dilip say when Antara asks why he might want children at the end of Chapter 11?
2. What were some of the early indications of the narrator's mother's decline with a year before the story begins?
3. What family story does Dilip tell when he announces to Antara that he wants to be a vegetarian and why does he tell this story?
4. What does Tara's doctor suggest Antara do in Chapter 11 after Antara shows the doctor her research notes?
5. How is Antara's early life described as the start of the chapter entitled "1981"?
6. During which conversation between the narrator and her husband is her name revealed for the first time?
7. What does the narrator's husband, Dilip, suggest she do to try to help her mother's memory?
8. Why does Dilip's mother send a pandit to perform a wedding ceremony between the narrator and Vishnu?
9. How does Antara's father react when she tell him of her mother's diagnosis?
10. How does Tara ultimately leave her husband in "1981"?
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