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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhat do Koly and her mother prepare for Koly's wedding?a quilt and saritraditional dumplingslinen table coveringsa special sari for her new sass
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the motive behind Hari and Koly's marriage?find a suitable wife for himget money for a trip to the Gangesto have another person to help with the work at their farmto find someone to care for Hari while he was sick
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhen Sass finally allows Koly to go sit with Hari, what do they do?look at the items that he collects and talk of Koly's hometalk about schoolKoly tells him stories of her adventures in the cityargue about the trip the next day
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat importance do the bandicoot and stray dog have for Koly in Chapter 6?she becomes a teacher and trains themthey are her only friendsthey represent the abundance of foodshe names them for Hari and Chandra
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhere did Sass abandon Koly?in the home she had shared with Sassurin the rickshawin Varanasi at the Ganges Riverin a temple on the journey to her brother's home
- 6. Multiple ChoiceFuneral customs in India might include:wearing silver earrings and a wreath on one's head made of marigoldstie the person's arms together and dropping ghee on the way home from the funeralburning the clothing that was worn at deathburning the body and putting the ashes in the Ganges
- 7. Multiple ChoiceThe term "auspicious" refers to:being suspicious of another person's motivesa favorable signbad luckhaving awesome taste in clothing and jewerly
- 8. Multiple ChoiceA widow is:a women who no one wants to marryuntouchables in the Caste System of Indiaa second-class citizen with no right to votea woman whose husband has died
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhich of these are considered clothing?tamarind, saffron, and charpoyshrine, chula, sadhuscholi, sari, tuniccurd, ghee, gataka
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe book Sassur gave Koly and she traded her earrings for was:a holy book with stories of darshanthe first book he used in teaching her how to reada book of poems by Tagorea history book of her family ancestry
- 11. Multiple Choicewidows in India wear:black sariwhite saria purple sari embroidered with a birdmarigold colored sari
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhy did Koly not receive her pension while living with Sass?Sass took it before she ever saw itthe mailman couldn't travel that farSassur used the money to learn how to use computersshe didn't have a bank account and couldn't make withdrawls
- 13. Multiple ChoiceKoly gets a job working for:Mrs. Devi making braceletsMala making ghee to sell in the marketMr. Govind stringing flowersthe widow's house helping new widows that arrive
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWho does Koly marry at the end of the story?a distant relative of Sassur that she falls in love withRaji, the rickshaw driver/farmerMr. Govind's son from work at the flower shopshe remains a widow and begins a job- finding program for abandoned young girls
- 15. Multiple ChoiceAt the end, Koly plans to embroider a sari for Mrs. Devi. She chooses a homeless bird. How does the title (Homeless Bird) of the book relate to Koly's life?Koly was always homeless and made a good life for herself in spite of her circumstancesloves overcomes all trajedyKoly was like a homelss bird but found a permanent home through the kindness of Mrs. Devi and the love of RajiKoly has a great love of embroidery and knows that Mrs. Devi's favorite animal is a bird
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