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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disrupts the neighborhood gathering?
(a) Mulk, one of the brothers, gets drunk and abusive
(b) The city fires are getting dangerously close
(c) Bakul gets angry and leaves
(d) Curfew bells sound

2. What helps Raja to begin to get better?
(a) Winter arrives and it is cooler
(b) He falls in love with one of the Misras sisters
(c) A new medicine brought by Dr. Biswas
(d) A letter from Hyder Ali Sahib and his daughter Benazir

3. Where does Raja say he will go?
(a) To live with Bakul and Tara
(b) To Hyderabad to live with the family of Hyder Ali Sahib
(c) To New Delhi and get an apartment
(d) To America and start a new life

4. What episode at school upset Tara's emotions so much she seem obsessed with one of the teachers?
(a) A female teacher was found to be having an affair with a local monk
(b) A female teacher falls in love with Tara
(c) Two of the teachers fall in love
(d) A teacher elopes with Sharma

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bim use this old letter from Raja?

2. Why did her father give her mother injections?

3. What does Bim compare her cat to?

4. As Tara gets older, she no longer seeks comfort from Aunt Mira. Where does she go?

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

(see the answer key)

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