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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old is Lakshmi in the beginning of the novel?
(a) 11.
(b) 14.
(c) 13.
(d) 15.
2. What food does Uncle Husband get for Lakshmi during a stop on the train?
(a) A bowl of rice.
(b) A roti.
(c) A mango.
(d) An apple.
3. What color does Lakshmi describe her mother's hair as in "Something Beautiful"?
(a) "Dark auburn."
(b) "Silvery gray."
(c) "Crow-black."
(d) "Corn-yellow."
4. What name does the turnip-nosed man refer to Auntie as in "Uncle Husband"?
(a) Shahanna.
(b) Mumatz.
(c) Anita.
(d) Bimla.
5. 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?
(a) Shahanna.
(b) Anita.
(c) Ama.
(d) Gita.
Short Answer Questions
1. What type of agriculture is grown around Lakshmi's village?
2. What color dress does the woman wear that purchases Lakshmi at Bajai Sita's store in "A Trade"?
3. What item does Lakshmi describe Gita's mother having purchased after Gita went to work as a maid in the city?
4. How old does Lakshmi describe her mother as in "Another Calendar"?
5. What name has Lakshmi given to the cucumber that she refers to as "the gnarled grandmother of the group" in "Confession"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Gita? What is Lakshmi's relationship with Gita in the narrative?
2. Why does Lakshmi describe her first experiences of her journey to be "inauspicious" in "An Inauspicious Start"?
3. How do Lakshmi's impressions of Auntie change in "Questions and Answers"?
4. What is described in the vignette titled "Another Calendar"?
5. What does a tin roof symbolize for Lakshmi in the novel?
6. How is irony employed as a significant literary device in Sections 1 and 2 of the novel?
7. How does Lakshmi describe her village's religious beliefs in "Something Beautiful"?
8. Who is Lakshmi promised to marry when she comes of age? Why does she not marry this character?
9. How is Lakshmi punished when she bites the old man in "The Old Man"?
10. How does Lakshmi describe her journey in "A New World"?
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