Homeless Bird

What do Koly and her mother prepare for Koly's wedding?

• a quilt and sari
• traditional dumplings
• linen table coverings
• a special sari for her new sass

What was the motive behind Hari and Koly's marriage?

• find a suitable wife for him
• get money for a trip to the Ganges
• to have another person to help with the work at their farm
• to find someone to care for Hari while he was sick

When 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 home
• talk about school
• Koly tells him stories of her adventures in the city
• argue about the trip the next day

What importance do the bandicoot and stray dog have for Koly in Chapter 6?

• she becomes a teacher and trains them
• they are her only friends
• they represent the abundance of food
• she names them for Hari and Chandra

Where did Sass abandon Koly?

• in the home she had shared with Sassur
• in the rickshaw
• in Varanasi at the Ganges River
• in a temple on the journey to her brother's home

Funeral customs in India might include:

• wearing silver earrings and a wreath on one's head made of marigolds
• tie the person's arms together and dropping ghee on the way home from the funeral
• burning the clothing that was worn at death
• burning the body and putting the ashes in the Ganges

The term "auspicious" refers to:

• being suspicious of another person's motives
• a favorable sign
• bad luck
• having awesome taste in clothing and jewerly

A widow is:

• a women who no one wants to marry
• untouchables in the Caste System of India
• a second-class citizen with no right to vote
• a woman whose husband has died

Which of these are considered clothing?

• tamarind, saffron, and charpoy
• shrine, chula, sadhus
• choli, sari, tunic
• curd, ghee, gataka

The book Sassur gave Koly and she traded her earrings for was:

• a holy book with stories of darshan
• the first book he used in teaching her how to read
• a book of poems by Tagore
• a history book of her family ancestry