1. What does Raja say as he is leaving for Hyderabad?
(a) That he will return to care for Bim and Baba
(b) That he knows his true love is Bim but he cannot have her
(c) That he wants Bim to send his books to him there
(d) That he will never come back

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

3. What does Bakul say to Tara when she decides to stay with her family that morning instead of going with him to New Delhi?
(a) She has gone back to being the hopeless person she was before he married her
(b) He wants a divorce
(c) She has made a wise decision that he agrees with
(d) She deserves time with her family after spending so much time taking care of his needs

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

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

6. What does Dr. Biswas say is wrong with Bim?
(a) She is conceited
(b) She is caring for too many sick people
(c) She is getting gray
(d) She is getting fat

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

8. Why can't they visit more often?
(a) Bakul is in foreign service and stationed in many different cities in the world
(b) Tara is afraid of travelling
(c) Their daughters do not like Bim or Baba
(d) Bakul cannot drive

9. Where is Tara spending all of her time?
(a) At the home of Hyder Ali
(b) Under Aunt Mira's bed
(c) On the rose path
(d) At the home of the Misras sisters

10. 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

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

12. What illness does Raja get that summer?
(a) Depression
(b) Cancer
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Venereal disease

13. What happens to the mother?
(a) She divorces the father
(b) She grows old and Bim must care for her
(c) She runs off with the chauffeur
(d) She dies without the children ever seeing her again

14. Who does Dr. Biswas admire above all others?
(a) Gandhi
(b) Mozart
(c) Elvis Presley
(d) Beethoven

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