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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 does Lakshmi respond when Harish asks her each day, "How are you today?"
(a) "Fine, thank you. And you?"
(b) "I don't know."
(c) "How are you?"
(d) "I am Lakshmi and I am well."

2. How much money does Harish say they pay children per week to break stones at the roadside in "A Word Too Small"?
(a) 50 rupees.
(b) 100 rupees.
(c) 200 rupees.
(d) 10 rupees.

3. What kind of roof does Lakshmi's family have on their hut in the beginning of the novel?
(a) A shingled-roof.
(b) A glass roof.
(c) A tin roof.
(d) A thatch roof.

4. In "Announcing the Dry Season," the narrator says, "The wind that blows up from the plains is called" what?
(a) "The loo."
(b) "The katana."
(c) "The mortar."
(d) "The amari."

5. What does Mumtaz offer to do to help Pushpa in "Beyond Words"?
(a) She offers to sell Pushpa to a different brothel.
(b) She offers to buy her infant daughter.
(c) She offers to buy her son from her.
(d) She offers to give Pushpa a loan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of vendor calls out to sell his wares below Lakshmi's window in "What I Don't Do"?

2. What does Lakshmi give to Harish for the festival of brothers and sisters?

3. In "Seeing a Girl with a Long Black Braid," the narrator says, "There are a thousand girls in the city. But so far, none of them is" whom?

4. Lakshmi's village is amidst what mountain range?

5. What words does Lakshmi say to the American in the end of "Believing"?

(see the answer key)

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