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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes Koly's bandicoot?
(a) Cuddly and soft with chesnut brown fur.
(b) Fearful and thin.
(c) Aggressive with an angry black stripe down its middle.
(d) Ugly with tiny eyes and large pointed ears.

2. Who gives Tanu and Koly the beads to make into bangles?
(a) Maa Kamala.
(b) Raji.
(c) The benefactor at the widow's home.
(d) The jewelry vendor at the marketplace.

3. What does Koly see being placed in the baggage car of the train before they embark on their trip to Varanasi?
(a) Her quilt.
(b) Her traveling chest.
(c) Many urns.
(d) Live animals.

4. What life changing event occurs in Chapter 6?
(a) Koly's father dies and she returns home.
(b) Sassur loses his job.
(c) Sass's brother dies and leaves her an inheritance.
(d) Sassur dies.

5. How does Sass respond when Koly offers to braid her hair?
(a) She does not answer and walks away.
(b) She nods her assent, but does not speak.
(c) She says Koly is too clumsy.
(d) She sighs and tells Koly that she will never replace Chandra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the stray dog in Chapter 6?

2. Who tells Koly of Hari's death?

3. How is Koly introduced to the people who host Hari's family in Varanasi?

4. What does Sassur tell Koly immediately after she learns of Hari's death?

5. Who meets Hari and his family in Varanasi?

(see the answer key)

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