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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color horse does Hyder Ali ride along the banks of the Jumna River
(a) Paint
(b) Roan
(c) Gray
(d) White

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

3. Who is successful and popular at school?
(a) Bim and Raja
(b) Baba
(c) Tara
(d) Their mother

4. At what age was Aunt Mira widowed?
(a) 17
(b) 50
(c) 15
(d) 25

5. What honor did Raja receive in school?
(a) Most Popular
(b) Member of the National Honor Society
(c) Quarterback for the football team
(d) One of his poems won a prize

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What childhood event do the Misras sisters remind Tara of that night?

3. In the summer of what year does Bim think time stopped for the family?

4. Who does Bimla think of when she hears that Gandhi has been killed?

5. What do the children do every evening?

(see the answer key)

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