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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3, pp. 114-171.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused the girl with the half-frowning face to look as she does?
(a) She had a stroke.
(b) She fell down stairs.
(c) She had a brain aneurism.
(d) She was beaten with a metal pipe.

2. What item does Lakshmi describe Gita's father having purchased since Gita went to work as a maid in the city?
(a) A new pair of spectacles.
(b) A new goat.
(c) A new horse.
(d) A new pair of trousers.

3. What color is the dress that Auntie gives to Lakshmi in "New Clothes"?
(a) Yellow.
(b) White.
(c) Pink.
(d) Green.

4. For how long have Auntie and Lakshmi been walking in the beginning of "Questions and Answers"?
(a) 5 and 1/2 days.
(b) 2 and 1/2 days.
(c) 1 and 1/2 days.
(d) 4 days.

5. Who takes Lakshmi's virginity at the Happiness House?
(a) Harish.
(b) Habib.
(c) Aminol.
(d) Aadit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been done to the woman that Uncle Husband says has been punished for running away from her husband in "Disgraced"?

2. What game does Lakshmi describe playing with Gita in "Before Gita Left"?

3. Which of Lakshmi's cucumbers is shaped like a snake, according to the narrator in "Confession"?

4. What do the older boys call the David Beckham boy's mother when they taunt him in "No Ordinary Boy, After All"?

5. How much money does Mumtaz withhold from the girls' earnings at Happiness House for the monthly shot that the "dirty-hands doctor" gives them so they won't get pregnant?

(see the answer key)

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