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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Sai's second tutor?
(a) Noni.
(b) Father Booty.
(c) Lola.
(d) Gyan.

2. What advice does Noni give Sai while she is tutoring her?
(a) To aspire to become an astronaut, as her father did.
(b) To do something out of the ordinary.
(c) To follow the path the judge has laid out for her.
(d) To concentrate on her studies.

3. How does Sai and Gyan's relationship change as they spend more time together?
(a) They resent one another.
(b) They spend more time talking about Sai's education.
(c) They are uncomfortable because they are from different classes.
(d) They start to fall in love.

4. How does Sai feel about the cook?
(a) She thinks their class differences are completely irrelevant.
(b) She feels close to him.
(c) She finds his lower-class status distasteful.
(d) She dislikes him.

5. What does Gyan mean when he calls Sai a copycat?
(a) That she is a plagiarist.
(b) That she tries to be just like Lola and Noni.
(c) That she is imitating Western culture.
(d) That she is trying to be just like Gyan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sai's parents die?

2. Who does Sai wait for at the beginning of the novel?

3. What effect does her first meeting with Gyan have on Sai?

4. What do Noni and Lola give as Christmas gifts?

5. In his second year abroad, why does the wife of Biju's boss give him toiletries?

(see the answer key)

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