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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bakul tell people who ask detrimental questions about India?
(a) No comment
(b) Mind your own business
(c) I don't know the answer
(d) I will check for you and find out

2. What does Tara ask Bim to do?
(a) Fix dinner for her and Bakul
(b) Move away from the house
(c) Do her laundry
(d) Attend the upcoming wedding of Raja's daughter

3. What overcomes Tara when she is at her family home?
(a) Energy, excitement and enthusiasm
(b) Heat, laziness, intimidation by her sister
(c) An urge to cook
(d) Sneezing and coughing

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

5. What do Bim and the old man discuss?
(a) Bollywood celebrities
(b) Fate
(c) Indian Partition
(d) Dr. Biswas

Short Answer Questions

1. What family pet is rescued from the tree in the garden?

2. In the summer of what year does Bim think time stopped for the family?

3. How do Bim's students describe Old Delhi?

4. What disrupts the neighborhood gathering?

5. Why did her father give her mother injections?

(see the answer key)

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