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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 41.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Gyan conflicted about his relationship with Sai?
(a) She is too young and naive for him.
(b) It is taking time away from his studies.
(c) She is highly Westernized, like the British who used his family.
(d) They are from different classes.

2. How do Lola and Noni respond to the Gorkhas marching in the street?
(a) They support their cause.
(b) They respectfully disagree with their position.
(c) They consider them degenerates.
(d) They want to learn more about what they're saying.

3. What does Biju misrepresent about himself in his letters to the cook?
(a) He claims to be helping others from his village.
(b) He claims to have a green card.
(c) He claims to have integrated into American society.
(d) He claims to be doing better financially than he really is.

4. After he joins the Liberation Movement, why is Gyan angered by all the time he spent with Sai?
(a) He had to walk two hours to get to her house.
(b) She is too young to make a serious commitment.
(c) He feels as though he was acting like a child, not a man.
(d) She is not a Gorkha.

5. What does Sai learn from the library book she skims?
(a) That her people have never been equal to the British.
(b) That all people are equal.
(c) That the way she was raised makes her equal to the British.
(d) That she is more British than Indian.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Lola and Noni feel about Sai's relationship with the cook?

2. In what types of places does Biju work?

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

4. What happened between the judge and his wife after these initial problems?

5. Where does Harish-Harry's future son-in-law live?

(see the answer key)

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