3. What does Bim return with from Hyder Ali Sahib's house?
(a) Furniture, money and some letters
(b) A dog, a servant, and the gramophone
(c) Books, a dog and a car
(d) A dog, a cat, and some food

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

5. What does Bim compare her cat to?
(a) Tara's daughters
(b) Baba
(c) Their mother
(d) Tara

6. Where does Baba get the gramophone?
(a) From Sears
(b) From the empty house of Hyder Ali
(c) He finds it in the dumpster
(d) He steals it from the Misras sisters

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

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

9. What family pet is rescued from the tree in the garden?
(a) Rex the camel
(b) Baba's gecko
(c) Bim's cat
(d) The parrot

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

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

12. When Bim and Baba return from Hyder Ali Sahib's house, what has happened?
(a) Tara has run off with Bakul
(b) Aunt Mira has lost her mind and is running through the garden naked
(c) All of the roses have died
(d) The cow has drowned in the garden

13. Bakul is waiting for them on the veranda. What music greets the sisters when they join Bakul?
(a) Baba's old 78 records
(b) Bakul's transister radio
(c) Country music from the Misras home
(d) Aunt Mira playing the flute

14. Who is asleep on the veranda when Bakul, Bim and Tara return home?
(a) Baba
(b) The pet dog
(c) The jet-black cat
(d) Aunt Mira

15. What does Bim pull out of the desk to show to Tara that night?
(a) A love letter from Dr. Biswas
(b) A letter from Raja to Bim saying he is now her landlord
(c) A scrapbook
(d) Photos of their last visit