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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4, pp. 172 – 223.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from "A Trade" means favorable or conducive to success?
(a) Suspicious.
(b) Auspicious.
(c) Colloquial.
(d) Incendiary.

2. What does Shahanna give to Lakshmi to help protect her against disease?
(a) A shot.
(b) Laudanum.
(c) A condom.
(d) Cocaine.

3. What is a daughter compared to in "The Difference Between a Son and a Daughter"?
(a) A doll.
(b) A goat.
(c) A diamond.
(d) A cow.

4. In "Seeing a Girl with a Long Black Braid," the narrator says, "There are a thousand girls in the city. But so far, none of them is" whom?
(a) Shahanna.
(b) Gita.
(c) Anita.
(d) Ama.

5. What does the tea vendor gain in exchange for putting extra sugar in the cook's tea at Happiness House?
(a) A bowl of rice.
(b) A stale heel of bread.
(c) A rupee.
(d) A pat on the head.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lakshmi go for her period of confinement after her first menstruation?

2. How old is the boy who wears the David Beckham t-shirt?

3. What food does Uncle Husband get for Lakshmi during a stop on the train?

4. Who did Monica give a bottle of nail polish to last week, according to the narrator in "Understanding Monica"?

5. What does Lakshmi scrub the floors with at her hut to keep it cool and "free from evil spirits" in "The New Student"?

(see the answer key)

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