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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Bim and the old man discuss?
(a) Indian Partition
(b) Fate
(c) Dr. Biswas
(d) Bollywood celebrities

2. 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

3. Why are the Misras sisters still living at the family home?
(a) They have a home based internet business
(b) Their husbands have abandoned them
(c) They want to be with their brothers
(d) They were wounded in the war

4. Which neighbors do Bakul, Bim and Tara decide to visit that night?
(a) Gandhi
(b) Hyder Ali Sahib
(c) Misras
(d) Aunt Mira's family

5. Who does Bim choose to speak to rather than the Misras brothers and sisters?
(a) Jayla
(b) Bakul
(c) One of the elder men of the Misras family
(d) Mulk

Short Answer Questions

1. What talent did their brother Raja have that developed into a career for him?

2. Why did her father give her mother injections?

3. What does Baba do that surprises everyone?

4. What does Bim attempt to do when she joins the others in the garden area and begins talking?

5. How often do Bakul and Tara visit Bim and Baba?

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