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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. What is a game that Lakshmi and Samir often play?
(a) Cricket.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Hide and seek.
(d) Trading proverbs.

2. Who is the first character the reader meets?
(a) Lakshmi.
(b) Hari.
(c) Radha.
(d) Malik.

3. What does the Ashoka lion represent?
(a) The British.
(b) The French.
(c) The new Republic.
(d) Hindus.

4. Lakshmi views Radha as her penance for what?
(a) Not finishing school.
(b) The disgrace she brought upon her parents.
(c) Not going back to Agra to get her family.
(d) Being attracted to Samir.

5. How is a profession viewed, in regards to women having professions in the novel?
(a) It is humorous.
(b) It is looked down up.
(c) It is honored.
(d) It is considered very prestigious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Joyce Harris’ life in danger?

2. What is the name of the poem in the epigraph?

3. What is the reason Lakshmi gives for why the Iyengar’s food was spicy?

4. What type of women did Samir prefer as lovers?

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

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