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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gouri do because of her illness?
(a) She keeps the girls close to her.
(b) She goes to America.
(c) She moves to the hospital.
(d) She sells the family's business.

2. Which word does Sudha believe to be the first one written on her forehead?
(a) Thin.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Small.
(d) Lazy.

3. Whom does Sudha first tell that she has received a packet?
(a) Anju.
(b) Ashok.
(c) Gouri.
(d) Pishi.

4. How many father figures do Sudha and Anju have?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) None.
(d) Two.

5. What does Anju give Sudha as a graduation gift?
(a) A ring.
(b) A bracelet.
(c) A book.
(d) A dress.

6. What is the name of the man the girls meet at the theater?
(a) Ameet.
(b) Arnie.
(c) Arik.
(d) Ashok.

7. How long was Gopal supposed to be gone on his trip?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Three months.
(c) Three days.
(d) One month.

8. What does Ashok want to give Sudha when he sees her?
(a) A box.
(b) A dress.
(c) A letter.
(d) A book.

9. The man who comes into the bookstore asks Anju for books by which author?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) D.H. Lawrence.
(c) Edith Wharton.
(d) William Shakespeare.

10. How does Sudha perceive her mother as behaving?
(a) Worried.
(b) Prideful.
(c) Shameful.
(d) Sorrowful.

11. At the theater, who sits next to Sudha?
(a) A man Sudha finds interesting.
(b) A teenage girl.
(c) An ugly man who harasses Sudha.
(d) A woman with a child.

12. According to a story Sudha has heard, if a menstruating woman touches mangoes, what will happen?
(a) They will taste better.
(b) They will become poison.
(c) They will be sinful.
(d) They will rot.

13. Why does Pishi think the girls will suffer?
(a) They love each other too much.
(b) They are not beautiful.
(c) They have made bad decisions.
(d) They are too sorrowful.

14. According to the mothers, who or what is a bad influence?
(a) Anju.
(b) Movies.
(c) The chauffeur.
(d) Sudha.

15. Why would Anju and Sudha not be allowed to watch the movie they sneak into?
(a) It is not a classic film.
(b) It features a female actress.
(c) It is a romance.
(d) It is about a war.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sudha's outlook change in Chapter 17?

2. How does Ramesh appear to Sudha?

3. What does Ramesh's mother want from her son's marriage?

4. After Sudha hears the story about her father, how does she feel about him?

5. What is in the packet Sudha receives in the mail?

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