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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 2, Before the Tulsis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bipti do the day before Mr. Biswas is born?
(a) Faints at the market.
(b) Falls down the stairs.
(c) Crosses the path of a white calf.
(d) Goes to her parents' home with her three children.

2. What book is Mr. Biswas keep for the rest of his life after being unable to return it to school?
(a) "The Lives of Engineers"
(b) "That Body of Yours"
(c) "Bell's Standard Elocutionist"
(d) "Book of Comprehensive Knowledge"

3. How does Mr. Biswas' father die?
(a) From an infected wound.
(b) He falls off a cliff.
(c) He is murdered by the bandits.
(d) He drowns.

4. What unlucky trait does the pundit claim Mr. Biswas will have?
(a) A limp.
(b) A glassy stare.
(c) A sneeze.
(d) A lisp.

5. In the beginning of Chapter 2, who buys the Bipti's property?
(a) Her next door neighbor, Dhari.
(b) The owners of the sugar cane plantation.
(c) A foreign investor.
(d) Her sister, Tara.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Biswas study with Pundit Jairam?

2. While at school, what talent does Mr. Biswas discover he has?

3. What deformity does the newborn Mr. Biswas have?

4. How does Shama's family react to the purchase of the house?

5. What disease afflicts Bipti's father?

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