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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 6, A Departure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the prologue, how does Shama attempt to earn money?
(a) By selling used cars.
(b) By working as a custodian for the local school.
(c) By stealing food and selling back to the market.
(d) By buying potatoes wholesale and then reselling them.

2. How does Mr. Biswas reply to his mother's claim that she will end up in the poorhouse because of him?
(a) He declares that he will find his own job and buy his own house.
(b) He cries and runs out of the house.
(c) He faints.
(d) He declares she will never go hungry as long as he is alive.

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

4. What does Sharma use to treat bedbugs?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Gasoline.
(c) Lysol.
(d) Kerosene.

5. What does Mr. Biswas recommend his wife do to earn money?
(a) Sell her hair.
(b) Sell their old car.
(c) Sell vegetables.
(d) Work at the school.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Biswas lose his childhood job?

2. What does Mr. Biswas discover about Sharma after they move to The Chase?

3. Who sold Mr. Biswas the house?

4. What disease afflicts Bipti's father?

5. How does Mr. Biswas invest the money he saved from his sign painting days?

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