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Bharati Mukherjee, The Management of Grief

Bharati Mukherjee, The Management of Grief

Read The Management of Grief and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. What tragic accident causes Mrs. Bhave to lose her family?

A terrorist bomb destroys a plane.

A terrorist bomb destroys a small market on the outskirts of Bombay.

A boat traveling from Ireland to England inexplicably sinks.

A suicide bomber kills himself in the Montreal airport.

2. What does Judith Templeton from the provincial government want Mrs. Bhave to help her do?

collect money from the grieving families for a mass funeral

help her cross cultural boundaries to communicate with the grieving families

translate both language and culture for her when they travel to India

identify the bodies of the dead as they surface

3. When is Mrs. Bhave finally able to identify the bodies of her husband and sons?

the first day she arrives in Ireland

years after the plane crash

never

the day before she leaves Ireland

4. Which character states the following: “I wish I could scream, starve, walk into Lake Ontario, jump from a bridge”?

Dr. Ranganathan

Pam

Kusum

Mrs. Bhave

5. What does Vikram tell Mrs. Bhave when he appears to her?

“The boys and I are in a better place. Grief is selfish.”

“Grieve for me in your own way.”

“Marry again. You deserve happiness.”

“You must finish alone what we started together.”