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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can't they visit more often?
(a) Their daughters do not like Bim or Baba
(b) Tara is afraid of travelling
(c) Bakul cannot drive
(d) Bakul is in foreign service and stationed in many different cities in the world

2. Who does Raja suggest to take over the family business?
(a) Dr. Biswas
(b) Tara
(c) Aunt Mira
(d) Baba

3. What is wrong with Aunt Mira?
(a) She has diabetes
(b) She is slowly going mad and drinking
(c) She is in love with the gardner
(d) She has tuberculosis

4. What goes wrong with Dr. Biswas and Bim?
(a) Dr. Biswas is of a different religion
(b) Bim's father disapproves of Dr. Biswas
(c) His mother does not like her, and Bim does not really like him
(d) There is too great an age difference

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to their mother after twenty years of spending her evenings at the club?

2. Why does Raja's father refuse to sign for Raja to attend his chosen college?

3. What happened to Hyder Ali's household members?

4. What do the Misras sisters want Bakul, Bim and Tara to do that night?

5. Why did Baba refuse the new 78 records that Tara found for him?

(see the answer key)

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