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

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

4. What sort of birds begin their calls before daylight around the family's home?
(a) Cardinals
(b) Hawks
(c) Seagulls
(d) Koels

5. How does Bim react to his interest?
(a) She moves away
(b) She falls in love
(c) She ignores him
(d) She begins stalking him

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

7. What is Bim's answer when Raja says he wants to grow up to be a hero?
(a) She wants to be a playwright
(b) She wants to be a veterinarian
(c) She says she wants to grow up to be a heroine
(d) She wants to be a sky diver

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

9. What color horse does Hyder Ali ride along the banks of the Jumna River
(a) Roan
(b) Gray
(c) Paint
(d) White

10. What disrupts the neighborhood gathering?
(a) Bakul gets angry and leaves
(b) Mulk, one of the brothers, gets drunk and abusive
(c) The city fires are getting dangerously close
(d) Curfew bells sound

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

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

13. What kind of business did the Misras brothers have and lose?
(a) Ice factory and soda water business
(b) Auto repair shop
(c) Car washing
(d) Bar and Grill

14. What skill do Raja and Bim possess and use throughout their childhood that Tara does not possess?
(a) Ability to speak another language
(b) Ability to memorize and recite
(c) Ability to write
(d) Ability to read

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