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

3. Why does Raja's father refuse to sign for Raja to attend his chosen college?
(a) The father is jealous of the closeness between Hyder Ali and Raja
(b) The college he wants specializes in Islamic studies
(c) The college Raja wants is too expensive
(d) The college Raja wants is not the father's alma mater

4. Where does Bakul think he and Tara should have stayed instead of at her family home?
(a) In a hotel
(b) At the home of Bakul's parents
(c) In the empty house of Hyder Ali Sahib
(d) His uncle and aunt's on Aurangzeb Road

5. Who does Bim choose to speak to rather than the Misras brothers and sisters?
(a) Mulk
(b) One of the elder men of the Misras family
(c) Jayla
(d) Bakul

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

7. What talent did their brother Raja have that developed into a career for him?
(a) He was a great cook
(b) He wrote poetry
(c) He sang rock and roll
(d) He drove race cars

8. How does the richness of Hyder Ali's home compare to Raja's home?
(a) Raja's home is welcoming and warm, and Ali's home is cold and dark
(b) Raja's home is shabby and empty, devoid of friends, color and charm
(c) Raja's home is full of love and compassion and Ali's is void of emotion
(d) Raja's home is full of interesting people and no one visits Ali

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

10. Why is it so strange for Bim to ask Baba if he is going to the office that morning?
(a) Bim usually does not speak to Baba in the morning
(b) He is mentally retarded and never goes to the office
(c) He has already mentioned going to the track that morning
(d) He is usually off on Tuesdays

11. What does Bim attempt to do when she joins the others in the garden area and begins talking?
(a) Flirt with Mulk
(b) Get slowly but surely drunk
(c) Sleep on the grass
(d) To provoke reactions from Bakul and Tara

12. How does this family dispose of the dead?
(a) Burial in a plot in the back yard
(b) Burial at sea
(c) Cremation
(d) Burial in an expensive crypt

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

14. What does Dr. Biswas recommend as treatment for Aunt Mira?
(a) Give her alcohol
(b) Counseling, and AA meetings
(c) Have her killed
(d) Put her in a home

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