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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bim use this old letter from Raja?
(a) To remember her brother's handwriting
(b) To blackmail Tara
(c) To remind her to pay the rent
(d) To remind her how angry she was when the letter came

2. What disease did Aunt Mira nurse Bim and Raja through?
(a) Chicken pox
(b) Typhoid
(c) Smallpox
(d) Cancer

3. Who does Tara think Bim looks like?
(a) Aunt Mira
(b) Baba
(c) One of the Misras sisters
(d) Their mother

4. What does she do with the papers?
(a) She throws most of them away, symbolically ridding herself of their hold on her
(b) She burns them
(c) She confronts Bakul with them
(d) She gives them to Tara's daughters

5. How often do Bakul and Tara visit Bim and Baba?
(a) Never
(b) Daily
(c) Every three to five years
(d) Every summer

Short Answer Questions

1. At lunch that day, what does Bim try to force Tara to eat?

2. How does Bim now see the pattern of her life?

3. What event at school upsets Tara so much she lies to avoid it?

4. What happened to the father?

5. How do Bim's students describe Old Delhi?

(see the answer key)

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