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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 do both families go when Aruna and her in-laws are visiting?
(a) To watch fireworks.
(b) To bathe in the Ganges.
(c) To the movie theater.
(d) To light incense in the temple.

2. How does Uma get home from her trip she sneaks off to make?
(a) Her best friend's brother.
(b) Her father comes to get her.
(c) The school van.
(d) The proprietor of the shop she wants a job at takes her.

3. What is unfortunate for Aruna when she becomes of marriageable age?
(a) She is barren.
(b) She is rather ugly.
(c) She is clubfoot.
(d) She cannot marry until Uma does.

4. Why are Mama and Papa angry when Uma returns home after dinner out with a relative?
(a) She tells her parents she was with a man.
(b) She is very late.
(c) She talks back to her parents.
(d) She is tipsy.

5. To what kind of life do Uma and Arun resign themselves?
(a) Comfort and boredom.
(b) Intellectual stimulation but strict.
(c) Religious.
(d) Subservience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uma do when they return from the park and her parents sit on the swing?

2. Where is the ashram situated?

3. Where is Arun at the opening of the novel?

4. Why was Uma's new husband anxious to get her dowry?

5. Where does Uma go after making her phone call in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does giving birth to a male child affect Mama's status?

2. What happens when Aruna comes to visit her family several years after her marriage?

3. What is the atmosphere like at the Ashram that Mira-Masi and Uma travel to, and how does Uma feel about it?

4. How does Uma feel about Mira-Masi?

5. What does Uma feel about the time she fell into the Ganges and was sinking?

6. Why do Mama and Papa not approve of Ramu?

7. How do Uma and Aruna feel about Anamika's engagement?

8. What is Uma's life like at the home of her new husband?

9. What does Uma do one night when Mama and Papa have gone out?

10. How is Anamika's life after her marriage?

(see the answer keys)

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