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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Dilip say in regards to the mushroom's Purvi's husband describes which latch onto caterpillars?
2. In Chapter 13, what does Antara say Dilip is obsessed with everything being when they discuss the differences between India and America?
3. What is the name of the waiter Tara and Antara meet at a diner while getting sundaes?
4. Why do the Governors move out of their apartment in Chapter 22?
5. What does Reza smell of when he first sees Antara n "2003"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What news does Antara's father call to share with her upon returning to India in "1995"?
2. What hurtful thing does Vandana say to Antara when Antara tells her she has to do what she says because she is her boss?
3. Why does Tara ultimately decide to leave the ashram in "1989"?
4. How does Antara respond to Dilip when he says she was rude to their maid and that Americans would not speak to a maid like that?
5. Why does Antara begin thinking more seriously about getting pregnant?
6. In Chapter 18, what occurrences make Tara believe someone else may be living in her apartment?
7. What does Antara write in her diary in "1993"?
8. How does Sister Maria Theresa treat Antara at the boarding school?
9. Why does Antara change her mother's diet to include more fats in Chapter 24?
10. How does the way Tara compares her body to Antara's in "1996" make Antara feel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay exploring the author's choice to write Burnt Sugar from Antara's point of view. How does this choice impact the story and the reader?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze Antara's relationship with her mother. Use examples from the text to show how and why their relationship is strained by the past and how it represents the themes of the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay examining the ending of Burnt Sugar. How did the ending impact you emotionally? Do you think the ending was effective? What might the author have done differently?
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