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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tara ask Bim to do?
(a) Attend the upcoming wedding of Raja's daughter
(b) Fix dinner for her and Bakul
(c) Do her laundry
(d) Move away from the house

2. When Bakul sees Bim with her students, what does he think?
(a) That Bim is a bad teacher
(b) That Bim has grown fat and ugly
(c) That Bim is in love with one of her students
(d) That perhaps he has married the wrong sister

3. What is Tara's reaction to Bim's behavior regarding the letter?
(a) Tara agrees that Raja is evil
(b) Tara is too busy looking at her fingernails to listen
(c) Tara decides to show the letter to Bakul to intercede on Bim's behalf
(d) Tara is shocked and tries to convince Bim that Raja is not a bad man

4. Where does Baba get the gramophone?
(a) He steals it from the Misras sisters
(b) He finds it in the dumpster
(c) From the empty house of Hyder Ali
(d) From Sears

5. What color horse does Hyder Ali ride along the banks of the Jumna River
(a) Paint
(b) Gray
(c) White
(d) Roan

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the richness of Hyder Ali's home compare to Raja's home?

2. What does Dr.Biswas ask Bim to do?

3. What overcomes Tara when she is at her family home?

4. What do Bim and the old man discuss?

5. Who is asleep on the veranda when Bakul, Bim and Tara return home?

(see the answer key)

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