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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Koly do when she wakes up at Hari's house the first morning after her wedding?
(a) Takes a walk around the yard.
(b) Joins her new sass in the kitchen.
(c) Helps Chandra milk the cow.
(d) Prays.

2. How do Chandra and Koly interact in Chapter 4 after Hari's passing?
(a) Chandra resents Koly's presence in the home.
(b) The two don't speak anymore.
(c) Koly resents Chandra's laziness.
(d) They are good friends and close.

3. What does Sassur tell Koly immediately after she learns of Hari's death?
(a) That they should not have made her marry him.
(b) That she will have to return home to her parents.
(c) That she would have made a good wife.
(d) That she is responsible for his death.

4. How does the crowd react as Hari's dead body is carried past?
(a) They chant.
(b) Women moan and men stomp the ground.
(c) They make a path.
(d) They seem not to notice.

5. Why is Sassur described as being sad so often in Chapter 4?
(a) Because Sassur is showing signs of illness.
(b) Because Chandra is showing signs of illness.
(c) Because his students treat him poorly.
(d) Because he may lose his teaching position.

6. Why do Sass and Sassur argue after the doctor's visit in Chapter 2?
(a) They disagree on plans to take Chandra on the trip.
(b) They disagree on plans to take Hari on the trip.
(c) Sassur wants Koly to go on the trip and Sass does not.
(d) Sass wants Koly to go on the trip and Sassur does not.

7. What does the doctor recommend to Sass and Sassur in Chapter 2?
(a) That they take Hari to the famous healer.
(b) That they do not take Hari on the long trip they have planned.
(c) That they take Hari to the healing waters.
(d) That they let Koly accompany Hari on the trip.

8. What does Chandra ask Koly to do before the family leaves for Varanasi?
(a) Let her keep the silver earrings if Hari dies.
(b) Bring her back some water from the river.
(c) Put a marigold garland on Hari if he dies.
(d) Give him some honey when Sass is not looking.

9. What activity does Koly undertake to remember Hari and to soothe her soul?
(a) She sews a special sari.
(b) She plants a mango tree and tends to it.
(c) She writes a poem.
(d) She makes a quilt.

10. What does Chandra tell Koly about her dowry?
(a) The dowry was more than the family expected.
(b) The dowry was less than the family expected.
(c) The dowry will pay for a famous healer.
(d) The dowry will pay to bring Hari to healing waters.

11. Each month after Hari's death, an envelope arrives in the mail for Koly. What is it?
(a) An application for a travel document.
(b) An application for factory work.
(c) Koly doesn't know as Sassur takes it.
(d) Koly doesn't know as Sass takes it.

12. How is Hari taken to the river?
(a) He is carried on a cot.
(b) He walks with the help of his parents.
(c) He is carried by his father and Mr. Lal.
(d) He is carried in a rickshaw.

13. What does the doctor say is wrong with Hari?
(a) He says he doesn't know.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Polio.

14. What is Koly's role in Chandra's wedding ceremony?
(a) Bearer of gifts.
(b) Common servant.
(c) Flower thrower.
(d) Sister of the bride.

15. What does Koly imagine doing as she daydreams in Chapter 4?
(a) Having a good husband and a child.
(b) Living with only Chandra.
(c) Returning to her parents' home.
(d) Selling her quilts to support herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Koly travel to meet her groom?

2. What does Koly see being placed in the baggage car of the train before they embark on their trip to Varanasi?

3. Who escorts Hari's body to be cremated?

4. What makes Koly erupt in a coughing fit while Koly is sitting with him, after she gets permission from Sass to do so?

5. Where do Sassur and Chandra go on Koly's first day in their home?

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