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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the Misras brothers still living alone at their family home?
(a) They are drunkards and their wives have left them
(b) Their wives have left them for other men
(c) They were wounded in the war
(d) The Misras sisters have asked them to come home

2. What family pet joins the sisters in the garden?
(a) Jayla the family parrot
(b) Badshah, the family dog
(c) Rex the camel
(d) Bessie the cow

3. Bakul is waiting for them on the veranda. What music greets the sisters when they join Bakul?
(a) Country music from the Misras home
(b) Baba's old 78 records
(c) Bakul's transister radio
(d) Aunt Mira playing the flute

4. What is wrong with Aunt Mira?
(a) She is in love with the gardner
(b) She has diabetes
(c) She is slowly going mad and drinking
(d) She has tuberculosis

5. How does this family dispose of the dead?
(a) Burial in an expensive crypt
(b) Cremation
(c) Burial in a plot in the back yard
(d) Burial at sea

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tara remember going for escape from the neglect of her parents?

2. What does Bakul tell people who ask detrimental questions about India?

3. What surrounds Tara's family home and those of her neighbors?

4. How did Raja meet Hyder Ali?

5. Why does Dr. Biswas think Bim is not interested in his courtship?

(see the answer key)

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