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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. How does Bim react to his interest?
(a) She ignores him
(b) She begins stalking him
(c) She falls in love
(d) She moves away
2. What happened to the father?
(a) He dies in an automobile accident
(b) He becomes successful in business and leaves
(c) He remarries
(d) He falls in love with Mira
3. Why does Dr. Biswas think Bim is not interested in his courtship?
(a) She has dedicated her life to caring for her aunt and her brothers
(b) Because she is in love with someone else
(c) She wants to become a num
(d) She is not interested in men
4. Which neighbors do Bakul, Bim and Tara decide to visit that night?
(a) Hyder Ali Sahib
(b) Aunt Mira's family
(c) Misras
(d) Gandhi
5. How does Tara, in this chapter, remember her parents?
(a) She does not remember them at all
(b) People who played cards, year after year, with their friends, and who ignored their children
(c) As reserved, but compassionate
(d) Loving parents who are involved in their children's futures
Short Answer Questions
1. What sort of birds begin their calls before daylight around the family's home?
2. What does Bim claim they do not have enough of for Bakul, yet she pours it generously for the cat and for Baba?
3. What disrupts the neighborhood gathering?
4. What does Bim compare her cat to?
5. What childhood event do the Misras sisters remind Tara of that night?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do you think the children's parents are at the club playing bridge every night?
2. What resulted from Raja's admiration of Hyder Ali Sahid?
3. How does Bim feel about her youth? Why do you think she feels that way?
4. How does Bim describe time? What do you think she means by this?
5. Why do you think Bim believes she is seeing Aunt Mira's ghost in the garden?
6. Why does Raja refuse to take over the family business?
7. Why does Dr. Biswas feel a sense of failure after talking to Bim about Raja's tuberculosis?
8. What is the difference between the languages of Urdu and Hindi?
9. Describe the family home and the feeling you get about it.
10. Why does Bim begin to respond to Dr. Biswas and his invitations to take her out?
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