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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. 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) Mumatz.
(b) Shahanna.
(c) Monica.
(d) Anita.

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

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

4. To whom does Monica give the shoes that she once threw at her when she leaves Happiness House?
(a) Pushpa.
(b) Shahanna.
(c) Lakshmi.
(d) Anita.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How old is the boy who wears the David Beckham t-shirt?

3. What color dress is the new girl wearing in "New Girl"?

4. How much money does Lakshmi discover her customers are paying for her in "The Customers"?

5. What does Shahanna tell Lakshmi to do with her shawl when she must bring a dirty man to her bed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lakshmi's relationship with Harish develop in Section 3?

2. How does Harish describe Americans to Lakshmi in "A Strange Vocabulary"?

3. What causes Lakshmi to become injured in her first days at Happiness House?

4. How does Lakshmi describe her perceptions of herself in "Am I Pretty?"

5. What is referred to in the title of "A Small Danger"? What does Lakshmi do with this danger?

6. Why does Monica return to Happiness House? What does she relate of her experiences while she was gone?

7. How is Lakshmi's situation explained to her by Shahanna in "Everything I Need to Know Now"?

8. How does Lakshmi describe her feelings regarding Pushpa's son in "An Ordinary Boy"?

9. How are children perceived at Happiness House? How many of the prostitutes have children?

10. How does Shahanna respond when Lakshmi tells her about her encounter with the American?

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