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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rukmani first earn money when she and Nathan are in the city?
(a) Cleaning homes.
(b) Begging.
(c) Writing letters.
(d) Prostitution.

2. When they leave the village, who are Rukmani and Nathan planning to live with?
(a) Thambi.
(b) Kenny.
(c) Murugan.
(d) Arjun.

3. What is the name of Murugan's wife?
(a) Kambi.
(b) Ammu.
(c) Kali.
(d) Janaki.

4. What does Rukmani talk Nathan out of selling?
(a) Their bullocks.
(b) Their pots and pans.
(c) The next season's seed.
(d) Their wedding clothes.

5. How is Ira earning the money she is using to buy food for her brother?
(a) By prostituting herself.
(b) By gambling in the tavern.
(c) By selling her writings.
(d) By teaching other villagers to read.

6. Where do Rukmani and Nathan go after leaving the doctor's house?
(a) To the Collector's house.
(b) To the market.
(c) To the temple.
(d) To their village.

7. What does Rukmani use for the first time at the doctor's house?
(a) A telephone.
(b) A lamp.
(c) An electric stove.
(d) A latrine.

8. Who, besides his mother, accepts Sacrabani unconditionally?
(a) Rukmani.
(b) Selvam.
(c) Ira.
(d) Nathan.

9. When Rukmani reaches Nathan's village, who comes running to meet Rukmani?
(a) Sacrabani.
(b) Ira.
(c) Kunthi.
(d) Selvam.

10. After their first night in the city, what do Rukmani and Nathan own?
(a) Their mats, their clothes, and three rupees.
(b) Their clothes and their mats.
(c) The clothes they are wearing.
(d) Three rupees and their clothes.

11. Which one of Nathan's sons has no skill for farming?
(a) Thambi.
(b) Kuti.
(c) Arjun.
(d) Selvam.

12. Which of Rukmani's sons is killed at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Raja.
(b) Arjun.
(c) Kuti.
(d) Thambi.

13. While still living in the city, who do Rukmani and Nathan entrust their money to while they go to work each day?
(a) Janaki.
(b) The overseer.
(c) Puli.
(d) Ammu.

14. In order to earn enough money to return to their village, Nathan and Rukmani continue to work in the city in spite of the rain that begins to fall. How many days in a row does it rain?
(a) Ten.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

15. In order to pay their rent, what is Rukmani forced to sell?
(a) Her new dress.
(b) Ira's new dowry.
(c) Her mother's ring.
(d) Her red sari.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 23, Sivaji returns to the farm. What news does he bring to Nathan and Rukmani?

2. What does Old Granny die from?

3. When they reach the doctor's house where their son works, what are Rukmani and Nathan told by the servants?

4. Nathan falls ill while he and Rukmani are in the city. What is his illness?

5. As Rukmani's family is waiting for the next harvest, even the fish becomes depleted. What does Rukmani do to feed her family?

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