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

2. What did the boys say Tara looked like when her hair was cut off?
(a) Roy Rogers
(b) A dog
(c) A turtle
(d) A pigeon

3. What is one of the most memorable actions she takes against Tara?
(a) Bim cuts off all of Tara's hair
(b) Bim tells Aunt Mira lies about Tara
(c) Biim exposes Tara to a swarm of bees
(d) Bim suspends Tara's telephone rights

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of books does Tara read?

2. Why is Tara carrying a set of keys on a chain around her waist?

3. What did Mira give the children that their own parents did not?

4. What disease did Aunt Mira nurse Bim and Raja through?

5. When Bakul sees Bim at her desk the next morning and offers to help with speaking to Sharma, what is her reaction?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bim take out her rage on Baba?

2. Why does Tara want Bim and Baba to go to the wedding of Raja's daughter?

3. Why did Tara think her father was trying to kill her mother?

4. Describe Raja in Bim's eyes until this chapter begins.

5. Why does the author use the episodes of the mad dog, the young teacher, and the bees to describe Tara's character?

6. How does Tara see their childhood?

7. What difference does Aunt Mira make in Baba's life?

8. How does Bim see their childhood?

9. How was Mira treated by her dead husband's family?

10. Describe Bim as Tara sees her in this chapter.

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