1. What happens to Aunt Mira in this chapter?
(a) She begins a career as a professional caregiver
(b) She dies
(c) She surprises everyone by marrying Dr. Biswas
(d) She begins obsessing about the cow

2. Which neighbors do Bakul, Bim and Tara decide to visit that night?
(a) Aunt Mira's family
(b) Gandhi
(c) Hyder Ali Sahib
(d) Misras

3. What happens when Raja's friends at Hindu College find out he believes the idea of Pakistan is feasible?
(a) They change their opinion and view to his
(b) They write letters to the newspaper in protest
(c) They try to kill him
(d) They become his enemies

4. When Tara speaks of being young again, what is Bim's reaction?
(a) Bim says she would love to be a child again
(b) Bim says she doesn't remember much about her childhood
(c) Bim says she envies Tara's childhood more than her own
(d) Bim remarks she would never be young again for anything

5. What does Bim think of his statement?
(a) She is angry and throws him out of the house
(b) She agrees and begins weeping
(c) She seeks out his mother for her opnion
(d) She believes it to be completely false

6. What does Baba do that surprises everyone?
(a) He leaves the house
(b) He begins speaking Spanish
(c) He announces his upcoming marriage
(d) He asks for pancakes for breakfast

7. What poet does Bim read to Raja to make him calm down?
(a) Maya Angelou
(b) Byron
(c) Browning
(d) Sylvia Plath

8. In the summer of what year does Bim think time stopped for the family?
(a) 1965
(b) 1908
(c) 1947
(d) 1982

9. How does Bim use this old letter from Raja?
(a) To remind her how angry she was when the letter came
(b) To remember her brother's handwriting
(c) To remind her to pay the rent
(d) To blackmail Tara

10. When Bakul sees Bim with her students, what does he think?
(a) That Bim has grown fat and ugly
(b) That Bim is a bad teacher
(c) That perhaps he has married the wrong sister
(d) That Bim is in love with one of her students

11. What are the names of the people everyone is talking about that summer, according to this novel?
(a) Gandhi, Clinton, Reagan and Bush
(b) Queen Elizabeth, Gandhi, Churchill and Nehru
(c) Gandhi, Mountbatten, Churchill, Jinnah and Nehru
(d) Gandhi, FDR, Churchill and Nehru

12. What is wrong with Aunt Mira?
(a) She is slowly going mad and drinking
(b) She is in love with the gardner
(c) She has tuberculosis
(d) She has diabetes

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

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

15. How did Raja meet Hyder Ali?
(a) Raja was swinging on Hyder Ali's garden gate when he reurned from a ride
(b) Hyder's horse ran over the boy
(c) Bim introduced them
(d) At a party at the Misras house