1. What does Mulk accuse his sisters of doing to him?
(a) Kidnapping his children
(b) Running off his musicians and denying him money
(c) Stealing his musical instruments
(d) Running off his wife

2. 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 blackmail Tara
(d) To remind her to pay the rent

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

4. What happened to Hyder Ali's household members?
(a) They were imprisoned
(b) They fled to America
(c) They were all killed in the riots
(d) They escaped to Hyderabad

5. What does Tara ask Bim to do?
(a) Attend the upcoming wedding of Raja's daughter
(b) Move away from the house
(c) Fix dinner for her and Bakul
(d) Do her laundry

6. What was the difference in religion between Raja and Hyder Ali?
(a) Raja is Hindu, Hyder Ali is Muslim
(b) Raja is Catholic, Ali is Muslim
(c) Raja is Hindu, Hyder Ali was Catholic
(d) Raja is Hindu, Ali is an atheist

7. Why did her father give her mother injections?
(a) Her mother was a drug addict
(b) He was slowly poisoning her
(c) Her mother had t.b.
(d) Her mother had diabetes

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

9. 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

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

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

12. What is the first discussion the sisters have that shows how different they are from each other?
(a) What is for breakfast
(b) Growing up and things changing from when they were children
(c) What is today's weather forecast
(d) When is Raja arriving

13. What happened to their mother after twenty years of spending her evenings at the club?
(a) She found another man
(b) She decided to spend the evening playing cards with her children
(c) She missed an evening and slipped into a coma
(d) She decided she no longer wanted to play bridge

14. Where does Tara remember going for escape from the neglect of her parents?
(a) To her Aunt Mira's room
(b) To school
(c) To Hyder Ali Sahib's house to read
(d) To the roof of the house

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