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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uma collect?
(a) Stamps.
(b) Coins.
(c) Dolls.
(d) Christmas cards.

2. What does Uma say about having to take care of her new baby brother?
(a) She loves everything about it.
(b) She wishes it had been a baby girl.
(c) Her school work is suffering.
(d) She is bitter that another male is being coddled.

3. What happens to the dowry Papa gives a suitor for Uma?
(a) They send half of it back after the groom is killed.
(b) They keep it but refuse the marriage.
(c) Papa refuses to give them a dowry.
(d) They return it and refuse the marriage.

4. Why does Uma's world suddenly brighten one day in Chapter 5?
(a) Uma's Papa says she may travel and visit Arun in the United States.
(b) Aruna becomes engaged.
(c) Mira-Masi wants Uma to travel with her.
(d) Her cousin Ramu arrives.

5. Why is Papa so angry when the arranged marriage for Uma falls through?
(a) Uma will never be able to marry now.
(b) The groom's family spent the dowry.
(c) The groom has said things to sully Uma's reputation.
(d) There is not actually a son in the family.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Uma feel in comparison to Aruna?

2. When does Uma collapse into one of her fits in Chapter 9?

3. Why does the prospective groom's family not offer a reciprocal invitation to Uma and her Mama?

4. When does Mira-Masi occasionally appear at Uma's home?

5. To what kind of life do Uma and Arun resign themselves?

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