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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bim return with from Hyder Ali Sahib's house?
(a) A dog, a servant, and the gramophone
(b) A dog, a cat, and some food
(c) Books, a dog and a car
(d) Furniture, money and some letters

2. Who does Bimla think of when she hears that Gandhi has been killed?
(a) Tara
(b) Dr. Biswas
(c) Raja
(d) Mrs. Gandhi

3. What disrupts the neighborhood gathering?
(a) The city fires are getting dangerously close
(b) Bakul gets angry and leaves
(c) Mulk, one of the brothers, gets drunk and abusive
(d) Curfew bells sound

4. What sort of birds begin their calls before daylight around the family's home?
(a) Cardinals
(b) Hawks
(c) Seagulls
(d) Koels

5. Why can't they visit more often?
(a) Their daughters do not like Bim or Baba
(b) Bakul is in foreign service and stationed in many different cities in the world
(c) Bakul cannot drive
(d) Tara is afraid of travelling

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raja say as he is leaving for Hyderabad?

2. Where does Raja say he will go?

3. What does Bim attempt to do when she joins the others in the garden area and begins talking?

4. How does Tara, in this chapter, remember her parents?

5. Why did her father give her mother injections?

(see the answer key)

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