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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 200 rupees.
(c) 10 rupees.
(d) 100 rupees.

2. What number is on the boy's David Beckham shirt?
(a) 23.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 59.

3. What television show is the favorite of the girls at Happiness House?
(a) The Bold and the Beautiful.
(b) One Life to Live.
(c) Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
(d) Jeopardy.

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

5. Who runs from the room sobbing as Pushpa prepares to leave Happiness House in "A Word Too Small"?
(a) Anita.
(b) Lakshmi.
(c) Shahanna.
(d) Mumatz.

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

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

8. How old is the boy who wears the David Beckham t-shirt?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

9. What has been left on a table for Lakshmi when she awakens in "One of Them"?
(a) Soap.
(b) A glass of water.
(c) A pornographic magazine.
(d) A feminine cleansing product.

10. What is "Shilpa's Secret" revealed to be in the chapter with this title?
(a) She is an alcoholic.
(b) She is running away.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is married.

11. What is lassi made from?
(a) Tea.
(b) Rosemary.
(c) Yogurt.
(d) Coca-cola.

12. What does Monica say her father needs when she returns to Happiness House in "The Living Dead"?
(a) A new roof.
(b) A new cane.
(c) A new hut.
(d) A new pair of spectacles.

13. What does the tea vendor gain in exchange for putting extra sugar in the cook's tea at Happiness House?
(a) A stale heel of bread.
(b) A rupee.
(c) A pat on the head.
(d) A bowl of rice.

14. How much money does Lakshmi discover her customers are paying for her in "The Customers"?
(a) 50 rupees.
(b) 100 rupees.
(c) 30 rupees.
(d) 20 rupees.

15. What does the boy in the David Beckham t-shirt grab and run off with as the girls put on their makeup in "Meeting the David Beckham Boy"?
(a) A Coca-Cola.
(b) An apple.
(c) A cup of tea.
(d) A paper kite.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the coughing woman that shares a room with Lakshmi at Happiness House?

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

3. What does Monica say her family told her daughter about her in "The Living Dead"?

4. 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?

5. Who did Monica give a bottle of nail polish to last week, according to the narrator in "Understanding Monica"?

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