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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of birds begin their calls before daylight around the family's home?
(a) Hawks
(b) Seagulls
(c) Koels
(d) Cardinals

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

3. How does Bim use this old letter from Raja?
(a) To blackmail Tara
(b) To remember her brother's handwriting
(c) To remind her how angry she was when the letter came
(d) To remind her to pay the rent

4. What does Bim attempt to do when she joins the others in the garden area and begins talking?
(a) Flirt with Mulk
(b) Sleep on the grass
(c) To provoke reactions from Bakul and Tara
(d) Get slowly but surely drunk

5. What is the first discussion the sisters have that shows how different they are from each other?
(a) Growing up and things changing from when they were children
(b) When is Raja arriving
(c) What is today's weather forecast
(d) What is for breakfast

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did their brother Raja admire above all?

2. Why did her father give her mother injections?

3. What skill do Raja and Bim possess and use throughout their childhood that Tara does not possess?

4. What does Tara ask Bim to do?

5. What talent did their brother Raja have that developed into a career for him?

(see the answer key)

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