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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 episode at school upset Tara's emotions so much she seem obsessed with one of the teachers?
(a) Two of the teachers fall in love
(b) A female teacher was found to be having an affair with a local monk
(c) A teacher elopes with Sharma
(d) A female teacher falls in love with Tara

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

3. How did the climate affect the children?
(a) They laid around the house or on the veranda, too hot to play anything but word games
(b) They were energized to do anything to keep warm
(c) They were active in sports
(d) They spent all their time out of doors riding their bikes

4. What did Mira give the children that their own parents did not?
(a) Drugs and alcohol
(b) Presents and money
(c) Strict discipline and punishment
(d) Compassion and attention

5. What does Bim tell Tara to tell Raja?
(a) Send me money
(b) Leave us alone
(c) I will bring Baba for a visit next summer
(d) Come soon to visit me and Baba

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Raja's favorite hobby at this time?

2. Which of the children first grows tired of Aunt Mira's ministrations and leaves the home for other adventures?

3. What does she do with the papers?

4. What does she say to Baba that upsets him?

5. What has happened to the Misras sisters' husbands?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tara remember the incident when Bim was stung by bees?

2. What is the symbolism of Bim tearing up Raja's old letter concerning the rent?

3. Why does Tara fail so miserably in school?

4. What is the symbolism the author is relaying when she describes childhood games where the sisters are never able to catch their older brother?

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

6. Why does Bim resist everything Tara says and mocks Bakul's words?

7. In your opinion, has Bim always been this way and Tara never saw it, or has Bim changed over the years?

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

9. Describe the children's mother

10. Describe the relationship between Bim and Raja.

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