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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why are the Misras sisters still living at the family home?
(a) They want to be with their brothers
(b) They were wounded in the war
(c) They have a home based internet business
(d) Their husbands have abandoned them

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

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

5. What surrounds Tara's family home and those of her neighbors?
(a) Dry parched desert
(b) Poverty and sickness
(c) Gardens full of plants and birds
(d) A lake

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is asleep on the veranda when Bakul, Bim and Tara return home?

3. What does Bim give Baba by way of apology for driving him out of the house that morning?

4. Why can't they visit more often?

5. Who does Tara think Bim looks like?

(see the answer key)

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