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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. How does Antara describe the guru in Chapter 9?
(a) A thunderous presence.
(b) A towering tree.
(c) A floating cloud.
(d) A giant pyramid.

2. What color is Tara's wedding sari?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Red.

3. What does Antara separate in a steel bowl by color in the first chapter in her mother's apartment when they return from the doctor?
(a) Mung Beans.
(b) Skittles.
(c) Buttons.
(d) M&Ms.

4. What does the doctor say "are protein formations that usually appear in the brain of Alzheimer's patients" (7)?
(a) Neurological protein inhibitors.
(b) Amyloid plaque.
(c) Alzheimer's plaque.
(d) Neurofibrillary proteins.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tara say Antara smelled like in Chapter 10, which signified to her she had her period?

2. What does Baba, the name they call the guru at the ashram, mean?

3. How long of a walk is it from Antara's house to her mother's?

4. How long before their wedding did Dilip's mother arrive in India?

5. Who does Antara meet at the Club on Boxing Day in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Tara ultimately leave her husband in "1981"?

3. What does the narrator's husband, Dilip, suggest she do to try to help her mother's memory?

4. What conversation does Antara have with Nani regarding the note she found in Tara's apartment about khichdi?

5. Why does Dilip decide to become a vegetarian in Chapter 8?

6. How does Antara's father react when she tell him of her mother's diagnosis?

7. What does the Club represent to Antara as explained in Chapter 5?

8. How does Tara change once she is pregnant with Antara?

9. How is Antara's early life described as the start of the chapter entitled "1981"?

10. Where does Tara first begin to see people traveling to the ashram? How old is she? How does she change?

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