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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does this family dispose of the dead?
(a) Burial in a plot in the back yard
(b) Burial at sea
(c) Burial in an expensive crypt
(d) Cremation

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

4. Why did Baba refuse the new 78 records that Tara found for him?
(a) He only likes the ones he has already
(b) He does not like Tara
(c) He is no longer using the gramophone
(d) He already has those copies

5. Tara tries to talk to one of the Misras sisters regarding her concerns about Bim. How does the Misras sister react?
(a) She says Bim is fine
(b) She offers to come live with Bim and help her
(c) She offers to help Tara speak with her
(d) She offers other examples of Bim's strange behavior

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Raja's friends at Hindu College find out he believes the idea of Pakistan is feasible?

2. Where does Bim go with the Doctor?

3. Which of the children first grows tired of Aunt Mira's ministrations and leaves the home for other adventures?

4. What happened to the cow?

5. In her mind, what does Bim compare Bakul and Tara, the Misras, Raja and his family to?

(see the answer key)

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