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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who begins to show interest in Bim?
(a) Sharma
(b) One of her students
(c) A Buddhist monk
(d) Dr. Biswas

2. What happened to Hyder Ali's household members?
(a) They fled to America
(b) They were all killed in the riots
(c) They escaped to Hyderabad
(d) They were imprisoned

3. Why are the Misras brothers still living alone at their family home?
(a) Their wives have left them for other men
(b) The Misras sisters have asked them to come home
(c) They were wounded in the war
(d) They are drunkards and their wives have left them

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

5. What happens to the mother?
(a) She dies without the children ever seeing her again
(b) She divorces the father
(c) She runs off with the chauffeur
(d) She grows old and Bim must care for her

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr.Biswas ask Bim to do?

2. What does Bim pull out of the desk to show to Tara that night?

3. What happened to the cow?

4. How was Baba different from the other children?

5. Why did her father give her mother injections?

(see the answer key)

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