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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter One - Chapter Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the touching of feet usually reserved for the lower caste?
(a) Feet are considered unclean.
(b) Feet are smelly.
(c) Feet are considered ugly.
(d) Feet are considered delicate.

2. What is the name of the poem in the epigraph?
(a) Journey On.
(b) Journey Forward.
(c) Journey Home.
(d) Returning Home.

3. When does one say MemSahib?
(a) When one is angry.
(b) When addressing a servant girl.
(c) When one is hungry.
(d) When addressing a female of an upper caste.

4. Why did Lakshmi need to visit her new home every other day?
(a) If she did not, she would have to bicker with the builder, who was quick to cut corners.
(b) She stored her supplies in her new home.
(c) She had to unlock the door and turn on the lights for the builder.
(d) She would become very depressed.

5. Before the arrival of Lakshmi, what caste of women painted the hands and feet of Lakshmi’s clients?
(a) Vaishya.
(b) Shudra.
(c) Kshatriya.
(d) Brahmin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nautch girls would conceal what within the henna design on their bodies?

2. How does Lakshmi confirm that Radha is her sister?

3. What do married women wear as a sign to all that they are married?

4. Why did the elder Mrs. Harris stay on in India after her husband died?

5. Who was Parvati Singh’s longest-serving help and nanny to her sons?

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