1. In this chapter, who is Tara attempting to write a letter to?
(a) Baba
(b) Her daughters
(c) Raja
(d) One of the Misras brothers

2. What episode at school upset Tara's emotions so much she seem obsessed with one of the teachers?
(a) Two of the teachers fall in love
(b) A female teacher was found to be having an affair with a local monk
(c) A teacher elopes with Sharma
(d) A female teacher falls in love with Tara

3. What have the Misras sisters become?
(a) Volunteers
(b) Corporate leaders
(c) Teachers
(d) Prostitutes

4. What is Raja's favorite hobby at this time?
(a) Stamp collecting
(b) Watching cartoons
(c) Listening to records
(d) Reading adventure books and acting out the hero characters

5. What does Bim do that evening to help calm her mind?
(a) Drinks wine
(b) Reads her old favorite books
(c) Calls Raja and talks for hours
(d) Watches a favorite tv program

6. In her mind, what does Bim compare Bakul and Tara, the Misras, Raja and his family to?
(a) Mosquitoes
(b) Family pets
(c) Roses
(d) Enemies

7. What is Bakul's solution to Tara's problems with Bim?
(a) To forget about it
(b) To encourage Bim and Raja to meet and talk
(c) To have Bim committed to an institution
(d) To take Bim shopping for new clothes

8. Where did Bakul and Tara meet?
(a) At school
(b) At the house of the Misras family
(c) At church
(d) At Hyder Ali's house

9. Why is Tara so shocked at Bim's descriptions of Raja and his family?
(a) Because Bim's descriptions are so loving an admiring, and Tara is concerned Bim is ini love with her own brother
(b) Because they are so accurate
(c) Because Bim uses obscene language in her descriptions
(d) Because Tara has visited Raja often and knows these descriptions are incorrect

10. What happens on one of these summer evenings that makes an impression on all of the children?
(a) Hyder Ali Sahib rides past them on his great white horse
(b) A group of soldiers march by
(c) The river floods and Baba nearly drowns
(d) They find a dead cow in the river

11. What sort of climate did the children grow up in?
(a) Tropic, intense heat and humidity during the summer
(b) Bitter cold, in the mountains of India
(c) On an island off the coast of India, breezy and warm
(d) Moderate, with four distinct seasons of snow, cool autumns, mild summers and pleasant springs.

12. Alone in her room that afternoon, what does Bim realize?
(a) She loves her brothers and her sister more than anything, and she needs to forgive and make amends
(b) She wants to leave home
(c) She really hates being a teacher
(d) She resents her family

13. What did Mira give the children that their own parents did not?
(a) Presents and money
(b) Drugs and alcohol
(c) Strict discipline and punishment
(d) Compassion and attention

14. What big event is happening at Raja's house?
(a) His 100th poem has been published
(b) His wife is pregnant again
(c) His daughter is getting married
(d) He is being promoted

15. Why does Aunt Mira ask the chidren's parents for a cow?
(a) It was cheaper than buying from the grocery store
(b) The milk they had been getting delivered was watered down
(c) She wants a pet
(d) She wanted to murder a cow