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1 Why does Ama want a tin roof?
The thatch roof leaks

A tin roof provides passive heating

A tin roof is a symbol of respectability

She likes the sound of rain on a tin roof
2 Why is Gita's family welathier than Lakshmi's family?
Gita's brother married a rich girl

The family has fewer children

Gita works as a maid in the city

Both of Gita's parents work
3 How does Lakshmi's stepfather view her?
As a way of making money

As a beloved daughter

As a potential bride

As a nuisance
4 Which dynamic best describes Lakshmi's relationship with Taili?
Mother and daughter

Best friends

Adversaries

Sisters
5 According to Lakshmi's stepfather, why doesn't he work?
He is too dignified to work

He is addicted to gambling

No one will hire a one-armed man

He never went to school
6 According to Lakshmi's stepfather, what is the difference between a son and a daughter?
A son stays with the family, a daughter leaves when she marries

A son is loved, and a daughter is useful

A son is a nuisance, and a daughter is a delight

A son takes after his father, a daughter takes after her mother
7 How do people on the mountain measure time?
By months

By seasons

By holidays

By women's woes
8 Which phrase best describes a woman's life in Lakshmi's village?
Defined by friendship

Full of pleasure

Defined by marriage

Full of loss
9 Why does Lakshmi hide for seven days?
Her mother is in labor

She got her first menstrual period

She was caught stealing sweets

Her stepfather wants to sell her
10 What changes after Lakshmi's first blood?
Nothing

She can get married

She has to behave modestly around men and prepare for marriage

She can move to the city to work
11 According to Ama, why do women suffer?
Because it is a woman's fate to suffer

Because women love their children too much

Because men oppress women

Because women have no rights under the law
12 According to Ama, how does a woman "triumph"?
By bearing a son

By escaping the village

By enduring

By marrying well
13 What does Lakshmi's father do during the drought?
Gambles away the rice paddy

Sells Lakshmi's cucumbers

Auctions off Lakshmi's hand in marriage

Sells Ama's earrings
14 What "luxury" costs Ama and Lakshmi nothing?
Smoking cigarettes

Listening to the baby's laughter

Enjoying the sound of the rain

Imaging what might be
15 What disaster prompts Lakshmi's stepfather to leave the village?
Krishna refuses to marry Lakshmi

The baby dies of a disease

A mudslide destroys the rice paddy

He gambles away the house
16 How does Ama provide for the family while her husband is away?
She sells her earrings

She sells Lakshmi's cucumbers

She joins Happiness House

She sells Tali
17 Who is the "city man" Lakshmi sees approaching the village?
Uncle Husband, come to take Lakshmi

Her stepfather, wearing new clothes

A representative from the local government

Lakshmi's biological father
18 Who approaches Lakshmi at the festival of lights?
Krishna, asking for a kiss

Bajai Sita, asking for more cucumbers

Aunty Bimla, inviting her to the city

Gita, returning home for the holiday
19 What does Lakshmi's stepfather win?
A motorcycle

Another goat

Ama's earrings

A new house
20 How does Lakshmi respond to the news that she will go to the city to work as a maid?
She weeps and begs not to be sent away

She says it is good news for the family

She worries what will happen to Tali

She asks Ama to go in her stead
21 Why does Lakshmi identify Bimla as a "city woman"?
She wears fine clothes and bangles

She smells like amber and jasmine

She speaks an unfamiliar language

She does not greet Lakshmi with the local greeting
22 Why does Lakshmi feel the festival of lights is an auspicious night?
The festival is held on her birthday

It is the festival of brothers and sisters

It is the festival of the goddess Lakshmi, her namesake

It is the festival of the god Krishna, the namesake of her betrothed
23 What happens to stepfather's motorcycle?
It breaks down

He crashes into a tree

A city boy steals it

He loses it gambling
24 Why does Ama look the other way when her husband gambles away all their money?
She believes even an irresponsible man is better than no man

She believes he has secret savings

She wants Lakshmi to trust him as a father

She is in love with him
25 Why does Ama give Lakshmi money for a sweet cake?
She is too thin after the drought

She knows the sweet cake will catch Bimla's attention

So she can be carefree like a child

She wants Lakshmi to give the cake to the baby

Why does Ama wait a full year before marking the birth of a child on her wedding day?

Ama waits a full year because four of her children died before they were one-year-old.

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What does this foreshadow regarding Lakshmi’s current situation?

What does "what" foreshadow regarding Lakshmi's situation.

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Discuss the vignette (chapter) entitled “Everything I Need to Know” (p. 15). What do you think of the cultural mandates that she must live by?

In this section we learn that a women's lives must be lived in service to men, specifically, their husbands. Women may not eat with their husbands. They must sit and watch their husbands eat, taking care of and serving them throughout the meal....

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 4/15/2020 1:28 PM

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