Interpreter of Maladies Quizzes
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Q. What story do these lines come from? "It was a wife's worst nightmare. After nine years of marriage…her cousin's husband had fallen in love with another woman."
Mrs. Sen's
A Temporary Matter
Sexy
Anna Karenina
Q. Who says "It's a sure sign of changing times"?
Bob Dylan
Mrs. Croft
One of the doctors in "The Treatment of Bibi Haldar"
Mr. Chatterjee
Q. Who is the "he" in this quotation? "He thought with a flicker of regret of the snapshots his mother used to send him from Calcutta, of prospective brides who could sing and sew and season lentils without consulting a cookbook."
The narrator in "The Third and Final Continent"
Sing and sew? Wow.
Mr. Kapasi
Sanjeev
Q. The narrator describes his achievement of "seek[ing] his fortune far from home" as "quite ordinary." What does he compare his achievement to?
astronauts landing on the moon
getting into Harvard
getting into MIT and Harvard
turning 103 like Mrs.
Q. What does Rohin say his definition of "sexy" is?
"throwing spitballs at a girl"
"loving the person next to you"
"loving someone you don't know"
Jessica Rabbit