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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true about Chandra's intended husband?
(a) He had small pox as a child.
(b) He has attended mission school.
(c) He is a master weaver.
(d) He is younger than Chandra.

2. What does Koly hear Sass and Sassur discussing on the evening she overhears them in the courtyard in Chapter 5?
(a) Hari's illness.
(b) Sass's illness.
(c) Chandra's dowry.
(d) Koly's dowry.

3. How does Koly travel to meet her groom?
(a) She walks.
(b) On a bus.
(c) By rickshaw.
(d) On a train.

4. How does Koly's mother make money?
(a) She makes and sells saris.
(b) She is a wash woman.
(c) She teaches.
(d) She is a medicine woman.

5. What is Koly's first impression of her new husband?
(a) He is too young and sickly.
(b) He is handsome.
(c) He is much older than her parents were told.
(d) He is angry.

6. What is one reason that Sass gives for being so resentful of Koly?
(a) She is a poor cook.
(b) She is an extra mouth to feed.
(c) She cannot read.
(d) Her dowry was too low.

7. Where are Hari's ashes scattered?
(a) At his home.
(b) They are not scattered, they are put into an urn.
(c) In a sacred spot next to the Ganges.
(d) Over the Ganges.

8. Where do Sassur and Chandra go on Koly's first day in their home?
(a) They both go to the market to work.
(b) He goes to school and she goes to the river.
(c) They both go to the school.
(d) He goes to sell the cow and she goes to buy medicine.

9. Where does Chandra's wedding sari come from?
(a) Chandra's mother gives it to her.
(b) Koly makes it for her.
(c) It is Koly's from her own wedding.
(d) Chandra makes it herself.

10. What does Koly want to do when she learns her parents have selected a husband for her?
(a) Sneak into his town to catch a glimpse of the boy.
(b) Meet him right away.
(c) Run away.
(d) Tell her best friend.

11. Why does Koly begin to enjoy her clothes washing time at the river after Hari's death in Chapter 4?
(a) She finds time to read.
(b) She learns to read.
(c) She meets a friend.
(d) She finds time to work on her special project.

12. How does Koly feel as she watches Chandra leave with her new husband?
(a) Determined to leave the Mehta's.
(b) Strangely tired.
(c) As if all her happiness is leaving.
(d) As if there is hope for her, too.

13. Where does Sassur obtain his favorite book of poetry?
(a) From his father.
(b) From a book store.
(c) From his school.
(d) From the author.

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

15. After Sass returns from getting Hari's medicine, how does she react when she discovers Koly in Hari's room and learns she has given him a remedy?
(a) She pretends not to notice.
(b) She starts to cry.
(c) She embraces Koly.
(d) She is angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hari given upon arriving at the place where his family stays in Varanasi?

2. What does Chandra tell Koly about Hari's illness?

3. What does Sass give Koly to help her work on Chandra's wedding quilt?

4. Why is a doctor called on Hari's first night in Varanasi?

5. What does the doctor recommend to Sass and Sassur in Chapter 2?

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