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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tara ask Bim to do?
(a) Attend the upcoming wedding of Raja's daughter
(b) Do her laundry
(c) Fix dinner for her and Bakul
(d) Move away from the house

2. What poet does Bim read to Raja to make him calm down?
(a) Sylvia Plath
(b) Browning
(c) Byron
(d) Maya Angelou

3. How does Bim react to his interest?
(a) She begins stalking him
(b) She ignores him
(c) She falls in love
(d) She moves away

4. What instrument does Dr. Biswas play?
(a) Flute
(b) Violin
(c) Bassoon
(d) Piano

5. Where does Baba get the gramophone?
(a) From Sears
(b) He steals it from the Misras sisters
(c) He finds it in the dumpster
(d) From the empty house of Hyder Ali

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness does Raja get that summer?

2. What goes wrong with Dr. Biswas and Bim?

3. What is wrong with Aunt Mira?

4. When Bakul sees Bim with her students, what does he think?

5. What does Bim claim they do not have enough of for Bakul, yet she pours it generously for the cat and for Baba?

(see the answer key)

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