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Nectar In A Sieve
This is a test over the Nectar in a Sieve book.
It was not proper for a woman to call her husband
by his first name by his last name "husband" "sir"
When Ruku was working in the pumpkin patch she accidently touched a
rat mouse cobra rabbit
One of the items the women collected from the fields that sold for a good price was
Wheat Beans Cabbage Dung
Who was the "go between" for Ruku and Nathan's daughter Ira?
Nathan Old Granny Kali Kenny
Early in the book Nathan and Ruku's paddy fields and the village were destroyed by a
monsoon forest fire tornado drought
After the village and crops were destroyed, many of the village sons went to work for
the village store the local farmers their fathers the tannery
Ira's husband brought her back to her parents because she was unable to
have children work in the fields read plant a garden
Ruku went to Ira's husband and asked him to take her back. He said he couldn't becasue
he ran out of money he had no place to live he had taken another wife he did not love her
After Ruku's oldest two sons lost their jobs at the tannery they found another job far away in the island of Ceylon working in
the cotton fields a factory the tea plantations another tannery
Ruku's third son went away to become a
farmer servant doctor student
Ruku and Nathan had very little rice to feed their family, yet Nathan gave most of it to Kunthi because he did not want his wife to know
he was the father of Kunthi's sons he was ill he was a theif he was unable to farm any longer
Ruku's son Raja was killed by a watchman because he was caught stealing
a basket of food money clothing a calfskin
In order to get money to buy food for her youngest brother Ira turned to
stealing gambling prostitution working at the tannery
Ruku's son Selvam was not much of a farmer so he took a job at
the post office the market the tannery the new hospital Kenny built
Ira gave birth to a boy. The baby was different because he was
sick an albino very small deformed
How long did it take for the new hospital Kenny was working on to be built?
seven years seven months two years two months
Old Granny died in the streets from
a heart attack cancer old age starvation
Becasue of his condition, Ira's son Sacrabani had to stay out of the
barn rain sun village
Nathan and Ruku lost their land and had to move because
the landlord sold the land to the tannery they were too old to farm the land Nathan was too ill they ran out of money
Once Nathan and Ruku got to the town their servant son lived in they found food and shelter in
a barn a temple an old building a strangers house
When Nathan and Ruku arrived at the doctors house were their son was a servant they found out that
their son was still there their son had left two years ago their son got fired there son was lost
Ruku tried to make money as a letter reader and writer so they could go back to their village but found that they could make more money working
at the tannery at the mill in the rock quarry at the market
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