Memoir: By Any Other Name - pp: 1-2 Quiz

What is the name of the author of:

By Any Other Name

• Joanne Rowling

• Santha Rama Rau

• Emma Charles

• Sonia Isabel

What is the genre of this text?

• Fiction

• Novel

• Short Story

• Memoir

Santha and Cynthia are

• sisters

• mother and daughter

• best friends

• the same person

What kind of School do Santha and Primela attend?

• An Indian day school

• An Anglo-French day school

• Anglo-Indian day school

• An English day school

Rau describes the teacher as having been in India “fifteen years or so” as having a “helpless inability to cope with Indian names” and having a “precarious bun” that “trembled”?

How would someone characterize this description?

• Hinting at disdain and contempt

• Filled with admiration

• Hinting at surprise

• Filled with terror

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When Premila (Santha's older sister) was given the English name ‘Pamela’, how did she react?

• She hit the teacher

• She joyfully jumped

• She cried profusely

• She kept a stubborn silence

How does Santha feel about the new name "Cynthia"?

• Competitive, envious

• Detached, uninterested

• Friendly, casual

• Loving, affectionate

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Why did Premila and Santha begin studying in a “British-run establishment”?

• They cheated and were kicked out of their Indian school

• They were finally old enough to start in a British school

• They wanted to learn English so they could go to college

• Their mother was too sick to continue home schooling them and their father travelled away

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does Santha's and Premila’s mother mean when she says “you can bury a dog’s tail for seven years and it still comes out curly, and you can take a Britisher away from his home for a lifetime and he still remains insular”?

• 'a Britisher' will accept any culture after they leave their home country

• 'A Britisher' will want to return to Great Britian after seven years

• 'A Britisher' loves dogs

• 'A Britisher' is not interested in other cultures and that is their nature

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4