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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, For Dreams to Grow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who lines the street of the village as the train is passing?
(a) Children.
(b) Students.
(c) Beggars.
(d) Women.

2. What do the two men ask Dina for permission to do while they are sewing?
(a) To talk.
(b) To smoke.
(c) To eat.
(d) To drink.

3. What is Nusswan's wife's name?
(a) Sapphire.
(b) Diamond.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Jade.

4. What is the name of the textile company that Dina works for?
(a) Ciao Exports.
(b) Hasta Luego Exports.
(c) Au Revoir Exports.
(d) Siyanara Exports.

5. After the first order of 36 dresses, what does the export company request?
(a) That Dina no longer work for the company.
(b) Fewer dresses from Dina's tailors.
(c) More dresses from Dina's tailors.
(d) That Dina be promoted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dina Dalal?

2. What seems to be an epidemic in the setting of this novel?

3. Where did Dina and Rustom meet?

4. What does Ibrahim demand of the tailoring business?

5. What does Dina feel that she is always nagging the two tailors about?

(see the answer key)

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