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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the summer of what year does Bim think time stopped for the family?
(a) 1908
(b) 1965
(c) 1947
(d) 1982

3. What talent did their brother Raja have that developed into a career for him?
(a) He drove race cars
(b) He wrote poetry
(c) He was a great cook
(d) He sang rock and roll

4. What family pet is rescued from the tree in the garden?
(a) Baba's gecko
(b) Rex the camel
(c) The parrot
(d) Bim's cat

5. What does Bim give Baba by way of apology for driving him out of the house that morning?
(a) A new record
(b) A new car
(c) A cigar
(d) An ice cream cone

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Misras brothers still living alone at their family home?

2. When Tara speaks of being young again, what is Bim's reaction?

3. The sisters remember playing in the sand and along the banks of what nearby river?

4. Bakul is waiting for them on the veranda. What music greets the sisters when they join Bakul?

5. What does Mulk accuse his sisters of doing to him?

(see the answer key)

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