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1 Why does Ama want a tin roof?
She likes the sound of rain on a tin roof

A tin roof is a symbol of respectability

A tin roof provides passive heating

The thatch roof leaks
2 Why is Gita's family welathier than Lakshmi's family?
Gita's brother married a rich girl

Both of Gita's parents work

The family has fewer children

Gita works as a maid in the city
3 How does Lakshmi's stepfather view her?
As a way of making money

As a nuisance

As a beloved daughter

As a potential bride
4 Which dynamic best describes Lakshmi's relationship with Taili?
Sisters

Adversaries

Mother and daughter

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

No one will hire a one-armed man

He never went to school

He is addicted to gambling
6 According to Lakshmi's stepfather, what is the difference between a son and a daughter?
A son takes after his father, a daughter takes after her mother

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

A son stays with the family, a daughter leaves when she marries

A son is loved, and a daughter is useful
7 How do people on the mountain measure time?
By seasons

By holidays

By women's woes

By months
8 Which phrase best describes a woman's life in Lakshmi's village?
Defined by marriage

Full of loss

Full of pleasure

Defined by friendship
9 Why does Lakshmi hide for seven days?
She got her first menstrual period

She was caught stealing sweets

Her stepfather wants to sell her

Her mother is in labor
10 What changes after Lakshmi's first blood?
She can move to the city to work

Nothing

She has to behave modestly around men and prepare for marriage

She can get married
11 According to Ama, why do women suffer?
Because women have no rights under the law

Because women love their children too much

Because men oppress women

Because it is a woman's fate to suffer
12 According to Ama, how does a woman "triumph"?
By marrying well

By enduring

By bearing a son

By escaping the village
13 What does Lakshmi's father do during the drought?
Auctions off Lakshmi's hand in marriage

Sells Lakshmi's cucumbers

Gambles away the rice paddy

Sells Ama's earrings
14 What "luxury" costs Ama and Lakshmi nothing?
Imaging what might be

Listening to the baby's laughter

Smoking cigarettes

Enjoying the sound of the rain
15 What disaster prompts Lakshmi's stepfather to leave the village?
A mudslide destroys the rice paddy

He gambles away the house

The baby dies of a disease

Krishna refuses to marry Lakshmi
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?
A representative from the local government

Uncle Husband, come to take Lakshmi

Her stepfather, wearing new clothes

Lakshmi's biological father
18 Who approaches Lakshmi at the festival of lights?
Bajai Sita, asking for more cucumbers

Gita, returning home for the holiday

Aunty Bimla, inviting her to the city

Krishna, asking for a kiss
19 What does Lakshmi's stepfather win?
Another goat

A new house

A motorcycle

Ama's earrings
20 How does Lakshmi respond to the news that she will go to the city to work as a maid?
She asks Ama to go in her stead

She says it is good news for the family

She worries what will happen to Tali

She weeps and begs not to be sent away
21 Why does Lakshmi identify Bimla as a "city woman"?
She smells like amber and jasmine

She speaks an unfamiliar language

She does not greet Lakshmi with the local greeting

She wears fine clothes and bangles
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?
He crashes into a tree

He loses it gambling

A city boy steals it

It breaks down
24 Why does Ama look the other way when her husband gambles away all their money?
She believes he has secret savings

She is in love with him

She wants Lakshmi to trust him as a father

She believes even an irresponsible man is better than no man
25 Why does Ama give Lakshmi money for a sweet cake?
She wants Lakshmi to give the cake to the baby

So she can be carefree like a child

She knows the sweet cake will catch Bimla's attention

She is too thin after the drought

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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