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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 181 - 237).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jivan speak to Purnendu in English in Part II?
(a) So she can make him understand she can be his equal.
(b) So he knows she understands English.
(c) So he knows where she was educated.
(d) So the guards will not understand them.

2. How does Jivan end up going to a good school for girls in Part III?
(a) The woman whose wallet she considers stealing helps her get into the school.
(b) Jivan's mother scrapes together the money for the school.
(c) Jivan's grandmother funds her education.
(d) Jivan's father insists she go to the school and he sells his rickshaw to pay for it.

3. Who takes over fixing the microphones at PT Sir's school after he stops doing it?
(a) Suri.
(b) Suresh.
(c) Migra.
(d) Mihal.

4. Why does Jivan decide to leave school early in Part IV?
(a) She does not decide to leave; her teachers expel her.
(b) She wants to help her family pay for her father's medication and other things.
(c) She wants to get a job so she can move out on her own.
(d) She wants to leave the country and she gets a job outside the country.

5. Who does Jivan ask to find Lovely for her?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her best friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many cases does Gobind manage at one time?

2. About how old was Lovely when she left her parents' house?

3. How much does the doctor at the government hospital charge Jivan and her father?

4. Why does the prison Jivan is kept in decide to try to improve its grounds in Part IV?

5. What does Jivan do in order to try to ask Uma madam for a favor?

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