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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lakshmi describe the smell of cooking onions representing to her in "A Secret"?
(a) The time for men to begin arriving at Happiness House.
(b) The time for sleeping.
(c) The time for The Bold and the Beautiful to come on television.
(d) The time for payments to Mumatz.

2. How much money does Mumtaz withhold from the girls' earnings at Happiness House for the monthly shot that the "dirty-hands doctor" gives them so they won't get pregnant?
(a) 50 rupees.
(b) 500 rupees.
(c) 200 rupees.
(d) 100 rupees.

3. How much money does Shahanna say Mumtaz charges the girls for weekly rent for their bed and pillow in "Mathematics"?
(a) 200 rupees.
(b) 100 rupees.
(c) 50 rupees.
(d) 40 rupees.

4. What does Lakshmi see Mumtaz doing with the policeman in "Police"?
(a) Begging him for freedom.
(b) Performing sex acts with him.
(c) Beating him.
(d) Giving him money.

5. Where does Lakshmi hide the American's card in "A Small Danger"?
(a) Under a floor mat.
(b) In the attic.
(c) Under her pillow.
(d) In a kitchen cupboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the tea vendor give tea to even if she doesn't have money until the next day, according to the narrator in "The Street Boy"?

2. What does Shahanna tell Lakshmi to do with her shawl when she must bring a dirty man to her bed?

3. Why has Monica been thrown out of Happiness House in "No Remedy"?

4. What does Shahanna give to Lakshmi to help protect her against disease?

5. What are the two languages spoken at Happiness House, according to Harish?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lakshmi's relationship with Harish develop in Section 3?

2. Why is Lakshmi relocated to a different room at Happiness House in "Changes"?

3. What are the repercussions when Lakshmi becomes ill in "The Cost of a Cure"?

4. What causes Lakshmi to become injured in her first days at Happiness House?

5. How is Lakshmi's situation explained to her by Shahanna in "Everything I Need to Know Now"?

6. How is Western culture presented in Section 3? How do the characters in the story perceive Western culture?

7. How do the girls at Happiness House react to Shahanna's disappearance in Section 4?

8. What happens after Lakshmi has been starved and given no water for five days at Happiness House?

9. What deal does Mumtaz make with Pushpa in Section 4? What becomes of Pushpa?

10. How does Harish describe Americans to Lakshmi in "A Strange Vocabulary"?

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