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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the richness of Hyder Ali's home compare to Raja's home?
(a) Raja's home is full of interesting people and no one visits Ali
(b) Raja's home is shabby and empty, devoid of friends, color and charm
(c) Raja's home is welcoming and warm, and Ali's home is cold and dark
(d) Raja's home is full of love and compassion and Ali's is void of emotion

2. What does Dr. Biswas recommend as treatment for Aunt Mira?
(a) Put her in a home
(b) Have her killed
(c) Give her alcohol
(d) Counseling, and AA meetings

3. Who is sitting on the veranda while Raja departs the family home?
(a) Tara, Begum the dog, and Aunt Mira
(b) Aunt Mira, Tara, and Bakul
(c) Bim alone
(d) Bim, Baba and the dog Begum

4. As Tara gets older, she no longer seeks comfort from Aunt Mira. Where does she go?
(a) To movies in town
(b) She runs away from home with one of the Misras sisters
(c) To Hyder Ali's house
(d) To the neighbors house to spend time with the Misras sisters

5. How does Bim recover from grieving for Aunt Mira
(a) She spends time at Mira's grave, talking to her
(b) Bim begins going to church regularly
(c) She writes a long letter to Raja concerning their memories of Mira
(d) Repeating the poem The Waste Land

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aunt Mira ask the chidren's parents for a cow?

2. Bakul is waiting for them on the veranda. What music greets the sisters when they join Bakul?

3. What does Baba do that surprises everyone?

4. Where did Bim and Raja go to cool off in the summer evenings?

5. How does Bim react to his interest?

(see the answer key)

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