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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What language does Raja admire the most?
(a) English
(b) Spanish
(c) HIndi
(d) Urdu

3. Bakul is waiting for them on the veranda. What music greets the sisters when they join Bakul?
(a) Bakul's transister radio
(b) Aunt Mira playing the flute
(c) Country music from the Misras home
(d) Baba's old 78 records

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

5. What does Raja say as he is leaving for Hyderabad?
(a) That he wants Bim to send his books to him there
(b) That he will return to care for Bim and Baba
(c) That he knows his true love is Bim but he cannot have her
(d) That he will never come back

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the children first grows tired of Aunt Mira's ministrations and leaves the home for other adventures?

2. What poet does Bim read to Raja to make him calm down?

3. Where does Bim go with the Doctor?

4. Why did her father give her mother injections?

5. What surrounds Tara's family home and those of her neighbors?

(see the answer key)

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