View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Amisha take her medicine?
(a) Ravi crushes it into sherbet.
(b) She takes them with buttermilk.
(c) She swallows the pills whole.
(d) She takes them with whiskey.

2. What does Stephen tell Amisha about his ideal wife?
(a) That she is Indian.
(b) That she is his friend and confidant.
(c) That she is wealthy.
(d) That she is English.

3. Who attends Neema's wedding?
(a) Neema's classmates.
(b) Stephen.
(c) Deepak.
(d) Amisha.

4. What is used in the celebration of Holi?
(a) Holy water.
(b) Color-filled balloons.
(c) Native Indian liquor.
(d) Kites.

5. What does Amisha name her last child?
(a) Shrimati.
(b) Lena.
(c) Vithika.
(d) Janini.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amisha ask Ravi to promise in Chapter 47?

2. How does Deepak's second wife treat Lena?

3. What happens to Amisha after her death?

4. How does Jaya react to her grandmother's death?

5. What does Amisah do with her class's stories?

Short Essay Questions

1. How to Stephen and Amisha communicate after she stops teaching at the school?

2. Where do Samir and Jay go off to study when they are older?

3. What happens to Amisha after she dies?

4. In an Indian wedding, what do the coconut and rice symbolize?

5. What does Jaya do while at the orphanage?

6. What is the nature of Misha's physical disability?

7. What does Jaya say when Amit asks her if there are untouchables in America?

8. For what does Jaya pray at the temple in Chapter 43?

9. What does Omi call Lena?

10. What is the day of Raksha Bandhan?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 508 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample