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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapter Ten - Chapter Seventeen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hari not tell Lakshmi before why he wanted money from her?
(a) She would not have given it to him.
(b) She would not have believed him.
(c) He wanted to keep his work a secret.
(d) He did not want he to know what he was doing with the money.

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

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

4. What do the two bamboo poles and the string of mango leaf garland symbolize?
(a) Fertility.
(b) Trust in the gods.
(c) Hope.
(d) Security.

5. While sitting with Mrs. Sharma, Lakshmi wants the thing she hates most in this world. What is that one thing?
(a) Love.
(b) Sympathy.
(c) Rejection.
(d) Criticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of the rituals of the move-in ceremony?

2. Why does Lakshmi imagine the letters from Kumar are from Radha?

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

4. At the beginning of Part Three, Chapter 10, what is still not completed on Lakshmi’s new home?

5. What never occurs to Lakshmi regarding Radha and the girls at the school?

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