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

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

3. What did Hyder Ali offer to Raja?
(a) Scholarship to the Muslim university
(b) Full access to his library
(c) A job as chauffer
(d) A job cleaning stables

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

5. What do the Misras sisters want Bakul, Bim and Tara to do that night?
(a) Come to Calcutta with them
(b) Take the brothers to a bar
(c) Iron their saris
(d) Stay for dinner

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bim and Baba return from Hyder Ali Sahib's house, what has happened?

2. What skill do Raja and Bim possess and use throughout their childhood that Tara does not possess?

3. Why is it so strange for Bim to ask Baba if he is going to the office that morning?

4. Whose ghost does Bim claim to have seen in the garden?

5. What does Bim give Baba by way of apology for driving him out of the house that morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the importance in the plot of the Misras brother, Mulk, and his drunkeness

2. Why does Raja choose Hindu College over his original choice?

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

4. Describe how Bim sees her brother's poems now.

5. Describe Bim as an adult woman, including her attitude towards her family members as well as her appearance.

6. Describe the family home and the feeling you get about it.

7. Why are Muslims no longer safe in India? What has caused this problem?

8. What are some of the basic differences between Tara and Bim? Examine their appearance, their attitudes, their sense of family.

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

10. Why does so much responsibility fall to Bim?

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