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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bim claim they do not have enough of for Bakul, yet she pours it generously for the cat and for Baba?
(a) Milk
(b) Beer
(c) Tea
(d) Water

2. What is the one thing she could not do for Baba?
(a) She could not teach him to dress himself
(b) She could not teach him how to talk
(c) She could not teach him to try new things
(d) She could not teach him to eat

3. What did Raja want to be when he was grown up?
(a) A soldier
(b) A librarian
(c) A Hero
(d) A writer

4. How did the climate affect the children?
(a) They were active in sports
(b) They spent all their time out of doors riding their bikes
(c) They were energized to do anything to keep warm
(d) They laid around the house or on the veranda, too hot to play anything but word games

5. What goes wrong with Dr. Biswas and Bim?
(a) Dr. Biswas is of a different religion
(b) His mother does not like her, and Bim does not really like him
(c) There is too great an age difference
(d) Bim's father disapproves of Dr. Biswas

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Bim and the old man discuss?

2. How was Mira treated by her husband's family after he died?

3. What disrupts the neighborhood gathering?

4. What happened to their mother after twenty years of spending her evenings at the club?

5. Where does Baba get the gramophone?

(see the answer key)

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