Question

For 10 points each, answer some questions about terrorist attacks in works by ethnically Indian authors from Canada.
[10h] The radical terrorist Sukhwinder kills the protagonist’s husband Prakash in this novel by Bharati Mukherjee.
ANSWER: Jasmine
[10m] Bharati Mukherjee also wrote the story “The Management of Grief,” in which Shaila’s family dies in one of these events caused by Sikh terrorists. At the beginning of a novel by a different author, two characters turn into an angel and demon during one of these events.
ANSWER: plane crash [accept answers relating to a plane being shot down; prompt on bombing] (The other novel is The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.)
[10e] In the novel A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, Maneck Kolah returns to India and sees the widespread killing of Sikhs after two Sikh guards assassinated this Indian Prime Minister.
ANSWER: Indira Gandhi [or Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi; prompt on Gandhi or Nehru]
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2023 ILLIAC (Cornell)2023-10-21Y417.50100%75%0%
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y816.25100%63%0%

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