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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happened to the father?
(a) He remarries
(b) He becomes successful in business and leaves
(c) He dies in an automobile accident
(d) He falls in love with Mira

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

5. What surrounds Tara's family home and those of her neighbors?
(a) Poverty and sickness
(b) A lake
(c) Dry parched desert
(d) Gardens full of plants and birds

Short Answer Questions

1. What did her doctor describe for the mother to deal with her illness?

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

3. What does Baba do that surprises everyone?

4. Why does Bim become angry at Tara?

5. When Bakul sees Bim at her desk the next morning and offers to help with speaking to Sharma, what is her reaction?

(see the answer key)

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