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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Dr. Biswas say is wrong with Bim?
(a) She is conceited
(b) She is caring for too many sick people
(c) She is getting gray
(d) She is getting fat

4. How did Raja meet Hyder Ali?
(a) Hyder's horse ran over the boy
(b) Bim introduced them
(c) Raja was swinging on Hyder Ali's garden gate when he reurned from a ride
(d) At a party at the Misras house

5. What does Dr. Biswas recommend as treatment for Aunt Mira?
(a) Counseling, and AA meetings
(b) Give her alcohol
(c) Have her killed
(d) Put her in a home

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tara, in this chapter, remember her parents?

2. Where does Baba get the gramophone?

3. Where does Bim go with the Doctor?

4. How does this family dispose of the dead?

5. Where does Bakul think he and Tara should have stayed instead of at her family home?

(see the answer key)

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