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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 18, 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rukmani find while tending her small garden?
(a) A spider.
(b) A cobra.
(c) A rat.
(d) A rabbit.

2. What does Ira wear on her wedding day?
(a) A red flower lei.
(b) Rukmani's red sari.
(c) Rukmani's purple sari.
(d) A strand of mango leaves.

3. What does Rukmani do when she finds the creature in her garden?
(a) She kills it.
(b) She touches it.
(c) She writes about it.
(d) She feeds it.

4. Rukmani is keeping a secret from her husband. What is her secret?
(a) She is seeing Kenny for fertility treatments.
(b) She lost a child before their son was born.
(c) She is working in the village to earn extra money.
(d) She is seeing Kenny romantically.

5. Before identifying the intruder in her house, what does Rukmani do?
(a) Slips out of the house until the intruder leaves.
(b) Wakes Nathan up.
(c) Fights with the intruder.
(d) Shoots the intruder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Arjun and Thambi do with their wages each week?

2. Who does Rukmani actually find in the house?

3. Why are some people surprised when they look at Nathan and Rukmani's daughter?

4. Why does Kenny not help Rukmani when ask. him for food during the drought?

5. When the villagers learn that Rukmani can write, there are mixed reactions. Which one of the villagers marvels at Rukmani's writing skill?

(see the answer key)

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