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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. What color dress does the woman wear that purchases Lakshmi at Bajai Sita's store in "A Trade"?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

2. What question is Lakshmi asked by the border guard in "Crossing the Border"?
(a) "Is this man your father?"
(b) "Where is your father?"
(c) "How old are you?"
(d) "Is this man your husband?"

3. Why do the women of Lakshmi's village drink the blue-black juice from the marking tree?
(a) To prevent coughing disease.
(b) To prevent HIV.
(c) To prevent miscarriages.
(d) To induce miscarriages.

4. What color does Lakshmi describe the huts of her village in "Something Beautiful"?
(a) Brown.
(b) Red.
(c) Orange.
(d) Yellow.

5. What does Auntie do to make Lakshmi keep walking ahead in "Moving Forward"?
(a) She kicks Lakshmi.
(b) She hits Lakshmi with a whip.
(c) She pinches Lakshmi.
(d) She throws gravel at Lakshmi's heels.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of vehicle do Lakshmi and Uncle Husband travel in "Crossing the Border"?

2. How does Lakshmi describe the amount of money that the turnip-nosed man gives to Auntie in "Numbers"?

3. Lakshmi says in Section 1 that her stepfather looks at her the same way he looks at what vegetables growing in front of their hut?

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

5. What does Lakshmi describe all the houses having like the one in Gita's hut in "Train"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about the setting of Happiness House?

2. How is the economy of Lakshmi's village described in "Calendar"?

3. How are the themes of corruption and gender inequality illustrated in Section 2 of the narrative?

4. What takes place in "A Trade"? What is the amount of money that is settled upon?

5. Who is Gita? What is Lakshmi's relationship with Gita in the narrative?

6. How is Lakshmi punished when she bites the old man in "The Old Man"?

7. What are the instructions for womanhood that Ama relates to Lakshmi in "Everything I Need to Know"?

8. What possessions does Lakshmi describe in "What I Carry"?

9. Who is described in "The New Student"? What is Lakshmi's relationship with this character?

10. Why does Lakshmi describe her first experiences of her journey to be "inauspicious" in "An Inauspicious Start"?

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