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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. What price was decided upon for Maharani Latika’s henna supplies?
(a) 100 rupees.
(b) 10,000 rupees.
(c) 900 rupees.
(d) 9,000 rupees.

2. Why does Lakshmi imagine the letters from Kumar are from Radha?
(a) Radha wrote them, while Kumar dictated.
(b) Kumar speaks of Radha so much in the letters.
(c) Kumar wrote them, while Radah dictated.
(d) She imagines Radha sitting next to him as he wrote the letters.

3. Why was the touching of feet usually reserved for the lower caste?
(a) Feet are smelly.
(b) Feet are considered delicate.
(c) Feet are considered unclean.
(d) Feet are considered ugly.

4. Since what time had the pedestrian walkways of the old Pink City had become narrower, crowded as they were on both sides with tiny, makeshift shops, sometimes with nothing more than an old sari or canvas cloth tenting them?
(a) 1950.
(b) The Great Depression.
(c) Parition.
(d) Colonization.

5. According to Samir, who has the Singh family had trouble with in the past, regarding Ravi?
(a) Girls at parties.
(b) Girls from the Maharani School.
(c) Girls from the Pleasure District.
(d) Servant girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What western actress does Kanta like and want to show Radha?

2. When does one say MemSahib?

3. Samir convinces Gupta to pay Naraya to build toilets and says, "to a clerk a bribe; to a Brahmin" a what?

4. What makes Lakshmi think about Lala and her niece, as she is wandering the city?

5. How does Radha get Hari to bring her to Jaipur and to find Lakshmi?

(see the answer key)

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