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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapter Eighteen - Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Parvati was born to which caste?
(a) Vaishya.
(b) Shudra.
(c) Kshatriya.
(d) Brahmin.

2. What makes Lakshmi think about Lala and her niece, as she is wandering the city?
(a) She sees a young girl, heavily made up, in a cheap orange sari and a swollen belly.
(b) She is thinking about Ravi and servant girls.
(c) She is wondering who might make a good nanny for Radha's baby.
(d) She passes Lala in the streets.

3. When what Goddess comes to give you her blessing, you should not leave the room to wash your face?
(a) Goddess of Love.
(b) Goddess of Power.
(c) Goddess of Education.
(d) Goddess of Wealth.

4. What is the centuries-old tradition known as purdah?
(a) The palace females live separately from the males.
(b) The maharajas are able to choose their own wives.
(c) The type of food cooked at the palace.
(d) The adoption of the next maharaja.

5. Who advised the Maharani Indira’s late husband to adopt a son to be the next maharaja, rather than have a blood heir?
(a) His priest.
(b) The gods in his dreams.
(c) His astrologer.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lakshmi turn down Maharani Latika’s invite to watch her teach the girls to dance?

2. Radha is known as what by the people of her village?

3. Why did Lakshmi need to visit her new home every other day?

4. What is Malik’s advice to Radha, at the end of their discussion regarding where Malik had seen Radha?

5. When admiring her new home’s mosaic floor, of whom does it remind Lakshmi?

(see the answer key)

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