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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Raja is away from home one afternoon, what do Bim and Tara do?
(a) They drank his private stash of whiskey and tore his magazines
(b) They put on his clothes, imitate him, disturb his papers in his room and smoke his cigarettes
(c) They moved his bed to the lawn
(d) They cleaned his room and put fresh flowers in it

2. Why are the Misras sisters still living at the family home?
(a) They were wounded in the war
(b) Their husbands have abandoned them
(c) They want to be with their brothers
(d) They have a home based internet business

3. Why did Baba refuse the new 78 records that Tara found for him?
(a) He already has those copies
(b) He only likes the ones he has already
(c) He is no longer using the gramophone
(d) He does not like Tara

4. What did Tara think was happening?
(a) That her mother was a drug addict
(b) That her father had killed her mother
(c) That her father was a doctor
(d) That her mother was dying of terminal cancer

5. What does Bim claim they do not have enough of for Bakul, yet she pours it generously for the cat and for Baba?
(a) Tea
(b) Milk
(c) Beer
(d) Water

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Baba different from the other children?

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

3. Why does Aunt Mira ask the chidren's parents for a cow?

4. Who was called to care for Baba when the mother grew tired of him?

5. What childhood event do the Misras sisters remind Tara of that night?

(see the answer key)

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