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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 3, The Tulsis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mr. Biswas' favorite hobby?
(a) Walking.
(b) Reading.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Chess.

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

3. What is Pundit Tulsi famous for?
(a) Being the first Pundit in Trinidad to be elected governor.
(b) Being a wealthy plantation owner.
(c) Being the first man on Trinidad to be killed by a motor car.
(d) His astonishingly accurate prophecies.

4. What disease afflicts Bipti's father?
(a) Lupus.
(b) Polio.
(c) Leprosy.
(d) Asthma.

5. What job is Mr. Biswas fired from in the prologue?
(a) Taxicab driver in Trinidad.
(b) Police officer in Trinidad.
(c) Overseer for a sugar plantation.
(d) Reporter for the Trinidad "Sentinel."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Biswas reply to his mother's claim that she will end up in the poorhouse because of him?

2. What physical reaction does Mr. Biswas have to stress?

3. What job does Mr. Biswas have as a child?

4. How is the beginning of the prologue unusual?

5. In Book 1, Chapter 3, which relative betrays Mr. Biswas to the Tulsis?

(see the answer key)

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