WorksheetsHomeless Bird
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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Class
Date
1.
What do Koly and her mother prepare for Koly's wedding?
a)
a quilt and sari
b)
traditional dumplings
c)
linen table coverings
d)
a special sari for her new sass
2.
What was the motive behind Hari and Koly's marriage?
a)
find a suitable wife for him
b)
get money for a trip to the Ganges
c)
to have another person to help with the work at their farm
d)
to find someone to care for Hari while he was sick
3.
When Sass finally allows Koly to go sit with Hari, what do they do?
a)
look at the items that he collects and talk of Koly's home
b)
talk about school
c)
Koly tells him stories of her adventures in the city
d)
argue about the trip the next day
4.
What importance do the bandicoot and stray dog have for Koly in Chapter 6?
a)
she becomes a teacher and trains them
b)
they are her only friends
c)
they represent the abundance of food
d)
she names them for Hari and Chandra
5.
Where did Sass abandon Koly?
a)
in the home she had shared with Sassur
b)
in the rickshaw
c)
in Varanasi at the Ganges River
d)
in a temple on the journey to her brother's home
6.
Funeral customs in India might include:
a)
wearing silver earrings and a wreath on one's head made of marigolds
b)
tie the person's arms together and dropping ghee on the way home from the funeral
c)
burning the clothing that was worn at death
d)
burning the body and putting the ashes in the Ganges
7.
The term "auspicious" refers to:
a)
being suspicious of another person's motives
b)
a favorable sign
c)
bad luck
d)
having awesome taste in clothing and jewerly
8.
A widow is:
a)
a women who no one wants to marry
b)
untouchables in the Caste System of India
c)
a second-class citizen with no right to vote
d)
a woman whose husband has died
9.
Which of these are considered clothing?
a)
tamarind, saffron, and charpoy
b)
shrine, chula, sadhus
c)
choli, sari, tunic
d)
curd, ghee, gataka
10.
The book Sassur gave Koly and she traded her earrings for was:
a)
a holy book with stories of darshan
b)
the first book he used in teaching her how to read
c)
a book of poems by Tagore
d)
a history book of her family ancestry
11.
widows in India wear:
a)
black sari
b)
white sari
c)
a purple sari embroidered with a bird
d)
marigold colored sari
12.
Why did Koly not receive her pension while living with Sass?
a)
Sass took it before she ever saw it
b)
the mailman couldn't travel that far
c)
Sassur used the money to learn how to use computers
d)
she didn't have a bank account and couldn't make withdrawls
13.
Koly gets a job working for:
a)
Mrs. Devi making bracelets
b)
Mala making ghee to sell in the market
c)
Mr. Govind stringing flowers
d)
the widow's house helping new widows that arrive
14.
Who does Koly marry at the end of the story?
a)
a distant relative of Sassur that she falls in love with
b)
Raji, the rickshaw driver/farmer
c)
Mr. Govind's son from work at the flower shop
d)
she remains a widow and begins a job- finding program for abandoned young girls
15.
At 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?
a)
Koly was always homeless and made a good life for herself in spite of her circumstances
b)
loves overcomes all trajedy
c)
Koly was like a homelss bird but found a permanent home through the kindness of Mrs. Devi and the love of Raji
d)
Koly has a great love of embroidery and knows that Mrs. Devi's favorite animal is a bird
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