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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Clothes

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Clothes

Read Clothes and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. The story opens on the day of the speaker’s

engagement.

wedding.

coronation.

bride viewing.

2. What color is the sari the narrator wears for the airplane journey?

blood red, the color of luck

pale pink, the color of transition

sky blue, the color of possibility

midnight blue with a thin red border

3. What does Sumita do on the wedding night?

She runs away.

She embraces her husband in the women’s lake.

She bites her husband’s tongue.

She bites her own tongue.

4. What does Sumita’s husband help to run in America?

a shoe store

a women’s clothing store

a 7-Eleven

a Store 24

5. What event disrupts the story?

Sumita’s husband’s death

Sumita’s death

Sumita’s mother’s arrival

Sumita’s father-in-law’s death