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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Raja is away from home one afternoon, what do Bim and Tara do?
(a) They cleaned his room and put fresh flowers in it
(b) They moved his bed to the lawn
(c) They drank his private stash of whiskey and tore his magazines
(d) They put on his clothes, imitate him, disturb his papers in his room and smoke his cigarettes

2. What does Bim say about rich, fat and successful people?
(a) She wants to be one of them
(b) They are exciting
(c) They are admirable
(d) They are boring

3. How does Tara, in this chapter, remember her parents?
(a) She does not remember them at all
(b) People who played cards, year after year, with their friends, and who ignored their children
(c) Loving parents who are involved in their children's futures
(d) As reserved, but compassionate

4. Who did their brother Raja admire above all?
(a) Roy Rogers
(b) Hyder Ali Sahib
(c) Their father
(d) Baba

5. Where did Bakul and Tara meet?
(a) At school
(b) At Hyder Ali's house
(c) At church
(d) At the house of the Misras family

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is terrified of going to and being at school?

2. How does Aunt Mira treat Baba?

3. What overcomes Tara when she is at her family home?

4. What have the Misras sisters become?

5. What instrument does Dr. Biswas play?

(see the answer key)

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