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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. Who is Mr. Pandey?
(a) Sheela Sharma’s music teacher and Lakshmi’s neighbor.
(b) Lakshmi's landlord.
(c) Parvati's husband and Lakshmi's friend.
(d) Lakshmi's builder.

2. What happens to Radha during the dance lesson?
(a) Sheela Sharma elbows her in the eye.
(b) Radha catches Lakshmi spying on her.
(c) Radha forgets the dance and stumbles into several other girls.
(d) Sheela Sharma pays her a compliment.

3. What is Malik’s response when Lakshmi tells him to promise her he will never become a thug?
(a) He agrees.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He does not answer and walks away.
(d) He tells her it is too late. He is already a thug.

4. Why does Lakshmi believe Ravi is more to blame than Radha for their relationship and subsequent pregnancy?
(a) He is a boy.
(b) He is wealthy.
(c) He has done this to other girls in the past.
(d) He is older than Radha.

5. What is Mrs. Gupta’s reason for canceling her appointment with Lakshmi?
(a) She has found a better henna artist.
(b) She has heard rumors about Lakshmi.
(c) She says she has become allergic to henna.
(d) She says she is in mourning, therefore not in need of henna.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does Part One begin?

2. What is the main reason Lakshmi gives for why she believes she deserves all that is coming to her?

3. What does the bird, Madho Singh frequently say?

4. Who was Parvati Singh’s longest-serving help and nanny to her sons?

5. Lakshmi views Radha as her penance for what?

(see the answer key)

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