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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tara's reaction to Bim's behavior regarding the letter?
(a) Tara is too busy looking at her fingernails to listen
(b) Tara decides to show the letter to Bakul to intercede on Bim's behalf
(c) Tara agrees that Raja is evil
(d) Tara is shocked and tries to convince Bim that Raja is not a bad man

2. What do the children call their father?
(a) Poppa
(b) The master of the entrance and the exit
(c) Daddy
(d) The one who loves us

3. What do the Misras sisters want Bakul, Bim and Tara to do that night?
(a) Iron their saris
(b) Come to Calcutta with them
(c) Take the brothers to a bar
(d) Stay for dinner

4. How does this family dispose of the dead?
(a) Burial at sea
(b) Burial in an expensive crypt
(c) Burial in a plot in the back yard
(d) Cremation

5. What happened to their mother after twenty years of spending her evenings at the club?
(a) She found another man
(b) She missed an evening and slipped into a coma
(c) She decided to spend the evening playing cards with her children
(d) She decided she no longer wanted to play bridge

Short Answer Questions

1. What goes wrong with Dr. Biswas and Bim?

2. What color horse does Hyder Ali ride along the banks of the Jumna River

3. What is Bim's answer when Raja says he wants to grow up to be a hero?

4. What does Tara ask Bim to do?

5. When Bim and Baba return from Hyder Ali Sahib's house, what has happened?

(see the answer key)

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