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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. What does Sudah do to cheer herself up?
(a) She knits an outfit for the baby.
(b) She cleans the house.
(c) She goes shopping.
(d) She makes a quilt.

2. What is Sudah worried about for her child?
(a) She will grow up and resent her mother.
(b) She will grow up fatherless.
(c) She will grow up and have a good relationship with her father.
(d) She will be ridiculed for being a girl.

3. Who is hateful to Sudha, convincing her to move to America?
(a) Gouri.
(b) Nalini.
(c) Sarita.
(d) Pishi.

4. What does Sudha discover about her father on the plane?
(a) He is Singhji.
(b) He lives in America.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He is a murderer.

5. Where does Anju want to get a job?
(a) College library.
(b) Market.
(c) Elementary school.
(d) Bookstore.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anju feel about her father-in-law?

2. Pishi tells Sudha the mothers will pay for _____________.

3. What does Anju hate most about Sunji's mother?

4. What does Sudha's father want her to know about?

5. What does Anju discover about Sudha?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who speaks up most for Sudha and why?

2. Why hasn't Sudha's mother-in-law been telling anybody that Sudha is pregnant?

3. In what ways have the mothers found new identities?

4. What request does Ashok make of Sudha?

5. How does Anju feel when she finds Sudha's handkerchief in Sunjil's belongings?

6. Why does Sudha's mother-in-law want her to have an abortion?

7. How does Sudha find peace?

8. What is symbolic of the final scene in the novel?

9. Why does Sudha think that Gouri has not called to tell her about the brain defect?

10. What annoys Anju about Sudha?

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