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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapter Eighteen - Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When will Ravi be allowed to marry?
(a) When he graduates from university.
(b) When he falls in love.
(c) When Sheela turns 18.
(d) When is turns 25.

2. What is the name for an Englishman or woman in Hindi?
(a) Brit.
(b) Angrezi.
(c) Fair-skinned.
(d) Anglais.

3. What is a namaste?
(a) A yoga pose in which you balance on one foot.
(b) An Indian delicacy.
(c) The bringing one’s hands together in a prayer-like position.
(d) An insult.

4. At the beginning of Part Three, Chapter 10, what is still not completed on Lakshmi’s new home?
(a) The bathroom.
(b) The roof.
(c) There is no electricity.
(d) The tile floor.

5. How does Lakshmi confirm that Radha is her sister?
(a) Radha recites part of Othello.
(b) Radha does a traditional Indian dance.
(c) Radha shows Lakshmi her birth certificate.
(d) Radha is able to complete the nursery rhyme their father had made up and sung to them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most noticeable feature of Hari?

2. Since what time had the pedestrian walkways of the old Pink City had become narrower, crowded as they were on both sides with tiny, makeshift shops, sometimes with nothing more than an old sari or canvas cloth tenting them?

3. Why was Kanta able to do graduate studies in England?

4. How is a profession viewed, in regards to women having professions in the novel?

5. According to the narrator, where did most families live during British rule?

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