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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) He wants a divorce
(b) She has made a wise decision that he agrees with
(c) She has gone back to being the hopeless person she was before he married her
(d) She deserves time with her family after spending so much time taking care of his needs

5. Who does Tara think Bim looks like?
(a) Baba
(b) Their mother
(c) One of the Misras sisters
(d) Aunt Mira

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Misras sisters want Bakul, Bim and Tara to do that night?

2. How does Bim use this old letter from Raja?

3. Why does Raja's father refuse to sign for Raja to attend his chosen college?

4. Why are the Misras sisters still living at the family home?

5. What do the children call their father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is symbolic about the father's car that was left in the garage after his death?

2. What resulted from Raja's admiration of Hyder Ali Sahid?

3. Why does Tara begin to spend time with the Misras sisters?

4. Why do you think Bim believes she is seeing Aunt Mira's ghost in the garden?

5. Why is Raja so upset about the whereabouts of the family of Hyder Ali Sahid?

6. What is Tara's purpose in coming to the family home?

7. Why does so much responsibility fall to Bim?

8. How does Bim feel about her youth? Why do you think she feels that way?

9. Why does Raja refuse to take over the family business?

10. Why does Bim show the letter from Raja to Tara?

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