BASIC STATED/KEY DETAIL READING ASSESSMENT

A boy enters the home with Deepa, and the two speak to Banu's ajji. How does Deepa describe the boy?

• physically but not mentally handicapped

• her future husband

• her brother in arms

• the way all men should be

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is a reason Banu's ajji gives for keeping her first name a secret?

• It mirrors the secret she keeps from her husband.

• She wants to only be known as Banu's ajji.

• She is ashamed of what her name means.

• Revealing it would mean that she has given up.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

How does Banu's ajji stop the demolition of Heaven-some 15-16 years ago?

• she lies down on the ground

• she procures the foreign photographer

• through a Jedi mind trick

• by revealing confidential information

What kind of work do Banu's ajji and her husband do in Bangalore?

• cleaning the homes of wealthy people

• ironing clothes in a pressing device

• sweeping out the governmental post offices

• serving meals in the mornings

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

What is a critical difference between Banu's ajji and her six sisters?

• Banu's ajji is much less attractive than her sisters.

• Banu's ajji is much harder working than her sisters.

• Banu's ajji is much less educated than her sisters.

• Banu's ajji is born out of wedlock; her sister's are not.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

What, do we infer, is a "lathi," of the chapter's title, "Lathi Charge"?

• an electric current

• a breed of elephant

• a policeman's weapon

• a fine for squatting

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

How is Banu's ajji able to procure from her husband permission to earn money with her kolam?

• she has Janaki Ma'am speak to him

• she threatens to leave him

• she witnesses a secret

• she promises him a new home

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

In her first days of her marriage, when is the only time Banu's ajji found happiness?

• when her husband lies with her

• when she works with her mother-in-law

• when she is cooking meals

• in the mornings

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Who must stay with Banu’s ajji as the women continue to protest the demolition of Heaven?

• Banu

• Deepa

• Neelamma Aunty

• Padma

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What is the real reason Banu’s ajji understands is her husband's desire to move to Bangalore?

• to invest in real estate

• they have been promised work there

• love

• the husband must leave the farm to an older brother

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1