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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first discussion the sisters have that shows how different they are from each other?
(a) What is for breakfast
(b) Growing up and things changing from when they were children
(c) What is today's weather forecast
(d) When is Raja arriving

2. What event at school upsets Tara so much she lies to avoid it?
(a) Spelling tests
(b) Class picture day
(c) Charity Thursdays
(d) Sports Day

3. How does Bim handle her anger at Raja for growing up and away from the other children?
(a) She takes long walks by the river
(b) She uses a punching bag in the gardner's shed
(c) She watches hours of television
(d) She becomes cruel to Tara

4. What disrupts the neighborhood gathering?
(a) Curfew bells sound
(b) Mulk, one of the brothers, gets drunk and abusive
(c) The city fires are getting dangerously close
(d) Bakul gets angry and leaves

5. Where did Bim and Raja go to cool off in the summer evenings?
(a) The family kitchen
(b) Hyder Ali Sahib's house
(c) The mall
(d) The River Jumna

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is successful and popular at school?

2. How was Mira treated by her husband's family after he died?

3. Where is Tara spending all of her time?

4. What does Tara say she wants to be when she grows up?

5. What happened to Hyder Ali's household members?

(see the answer key)

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