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

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

3. What has happened to the Misras sisters' husbands?
(a) They have died
(b) They have abandoned the sisters
(c) They have been lost at sea
(d) They have divorced the sitsers

4. What disease did Aunt Mira nurse Bim and Raja through?
(a) Cancer
(b) Smallpox
(c) Chicken pox
(d) Typhoid

5. How does Bakul deal with the atmosphere in Tara's family home during their stay?
(a) He tries to assist Tara in working out the problems with her sister
(b) He schedules luncheons and meetings all day every day
(c) He manipulates Bim and Tara to cause further anger
(d) He encourages the sisters to talk it out

6. When Raja is away from home one afternoon, what do Bim and Tara do?
(a) They put on his clothes, imitate him, disturb his papers in his room and smoke his cigarettes
(b) They cleaned his room and put fresh flowers in it
(c) They moved his bed to the lawn
(d) They drank his private stash of whiskey and tore his magazines

7. What did Raja want to be when he was grown up?
(a) A soldier
(b) A librarian
(c) A Hero
(d) A writer

8. After she speaks to Baba, who does Bim seek out to vent her anger?
(a) the cook
(b) Tara
(c) No one, her anger is finally spent
(d) The cat

9. What does she do with the papers?
(a) She gives them to Tara's daughters
(b) She confronts Bakul with them
(c) She throws most of them away, symbolically ridding herself of their hold on her
(d) She burns them

10. What did her doctor describe for the mother to deal with her illness?
(a) Strict diet of fruit and vegetables
(b) Walk in the garden every day
(c) Alcohol
(d) Vigorous exercise three times per day

11. What is Theosophy?
(a) A type of cow
(b) A type of cat
(c) A way to cook meat
(d) A form of religion

12. While they are still children, what childish claim to fame does Raja have?
(a) The sisters are never able to catch him in any game
(b) He is the only one able to count to 100 for hide and go seek
(c) He always cheats in order to win
(d) He always wins at cards

13. What does Bim say about rich, fat and successful people?
(a) They are exciting
(b) They are admirable
(c) She wants to be one of them
(d) They are boring

14. Who of the family needed Aunt Mira the most?
(a) Baba
(b) The father
(c) The mother
(d) Tara

15. What is the one thing she could not do for Baba?
(a) She could not teach him how to talk
(b) She could not teach him to try new things
(c) She could not teach him to dress himself
(d) She could not teach him to eat