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Q. What does a tin roof symbolize about a family in Lakshmi's village in Nepal?
The family is wealthy and hardworking.
The family is irresponsible and very poor.
The family has not prepared for the monsoon.
The family has more than ten members in it.
Q. In the brothel, the sense of possibility for Lakshmi is symbolized by a pencil. Why?
A pencil indicates the chance to do something she did on the mountaintop in Nepal—learn language.
A pencil costs money and Lakshmi needs money to pay down her debt.
A pencil indicates the hopelessness of Lakshmi's situation—she is stuck in the brothel while Harish can go to school.
A pencil symbolizes everything that is beyond Lakshmi's reach—language and freedom.
Q. Why does Lakshmi keep repeating her name, age, and place of origin throughout the novel?
This is the only thing she knows how to say in Nepali.
This is the only thing she knows how to say in Hindi.
Learning language is how she copes with the reality of the brothel.
She desperately wants to forget who she is and where she came from.
Q. How does Lakshmi's reflection in mirrors change throughout the novel?
Her image doesn't change in her eyes.
At first she sees possibility, and later she sees hope.
At first she sees death, but later she sees a beautiful woman.
At first she sees possibility, but later she sees an old corpse of a woman.
Q. What might the flying bird on the American's card symbolize?
Nothing; it's just a marketing design.
Freedom
Captivity
America