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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5, pp. 224 – 263.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Pushpa's baby girl?
(a) Anita.
(b) Jeena.
(c) Alana.
(d) Sara.

2. What does Shahanna ask of Lakshmi when Lakshmi tells her about the American in "A Secret"?
(a) To never leave.
(b) To take Shahanna with her.
(c) To tell Shahanna's parents to come save her.
(d) To go to the police.

3. What brought Pushpa to Happiness House?
(a) Her husband sold her into slavery.
(b) The death of her husband.
(c) Her father sold her into slavery.
(d) The death of her mother.

4. Who has disappeared during the raid in "Raid"?
(a) Monica.
(b) Shilpa.
(c) Anita.
(d) Shahanna.

5. Whom does the tea vendor give tea to even if she doesn't have money until the next day, according to the narrator in "The Street Boy"?
(a) Anita.
(b) Monica.
(c) Mumatz.
(d) Shahanna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the tea vendor cheat out of her change if she's not paying attention, according to Lakshmi in "The Street Boy"?

2. What name has Lakshmi given to "the ugly one" among her cucumbers in "Confession"?

3. What are "the carts with chicken and sheep in the back" called, according to Lakshmi in "On the Bus"?

4. What symbol is on the card that the American gives to Lakshmi in "A Strange Customer"?

5. What are the two languages spoken at Happiness House, according to Harish?

(see the answer key)

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