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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 upsets Parvati so much after the party?
(a) She has a fight with Samir.
(b) Sheela does not sing very well.
(c) Ravi makes a horrible Othello.
(d) Radha is found covered in Ravi’s grease paint.

2. What can readers assume is a tonga-walla?
(a) A wagon.
(b) The driver of a horse-drawn cart.
(c) A bus driver.
(d) A yellow cab driver.

3. Who was Parvati Singh’s longest-serving help and nanny to her sons?
(a) Samir.
(b) Lakshmi.
(c) Chowkidar.
(d) Lala.

4. Why is Sheela Sharma an unconventional match for Ravi Singh?
(a) She is from a different caste.
(b) She is poor.
(c) She is unattractive.
(d) She is very intelligent.

5. What is the most noticeable feature of Hari?
(a) A mole on his cheek.
(b) A long, bumpy scar from his bottom lip to his chin.
(c) His short stature.
(d) His long, dark hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are those who spread false information called in the book?

2. Radha is known as what by the people of her village?

3. Lakshmi learns from her ladies that only a fool lives in water and remains an enemy of what?

4. When admiring her new home’s mosaic floor, of whom does it remind Lakshmi?

5. What does Lakshmi hand Samir, when she sees him after her appointment with Parvati in Part One?

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