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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 is the reason Lakshmi gives for why the Iyengar’s food was spicy?
(a) They were from Sri Lanka.
(b) They were from the north.
(c) They were from the south.
(d) They were from Bangladesh.

2. How does Radha speak to Lakshmi by Part Two of the story?
(a) She speaks to Lakshmi as if she were her mother.
(b) She speaks to Lakshmi as an equal.
(c) She does not speak to Lakshmi at all.
(d) She speaks very little to her, using short, curt responses.

3. What is the term for a Hindu priest who is hired for the move-in ceremony?
(a) A pandey.
(b) A pandit.
(c) A pope.
(d) A poplar.

4. What does Samir want from Lakshmi, after their affair?
(a) He wants her to apologize for Radha's behavior.
(b) He wants her to pay back her loan.
(c) He wants everything to go back to the way it was.
(d) He wants her to be his mistress.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What never occurs to Lakshmi regarding Radha and the girls at the school?

2. How is a profession viewed, in regards to women having professions in the novel?

3. How often is Lakshmi attending to Marahani Latika at the beginning of Part Three?

4. Toward the end of Part Three, Lakshmi laments the arrival of Radha in her life. What does she call her?

5. Lakshmi views Radha as her penance for what?

(see the answer key)

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