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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What episode at school upset Tara's emotions so much she seem obsessed with one of the teachers?
(a) A female teacher was found to be having an affair with a local monk
(b) A female teacher falls in love with Tara
(c) Two of the teachers fall in love
(d) A teacher elopes with Sharma

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

3. What language does Raja admire the most?
(a) HIndi
(b) Spanish
(c) Urdu
(d) English

4. When Raja gets older, what other activity does he get involved in at Hyder Ali's home?
(a) He chews betel leaves with the servants
(b) He joins the circle of older men on the lawn, partaking in discussions
(c) He begins to do all the cooking for the family
(d) He begins embroidery with the women

5. What surrounds Tara's family home and those of her neighbors?
(a) A lake
(b) Poverty and sickness
(c) Gardens full of plants and birds
(d) Dry parched desert

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with Aunt Mira?

2. Who of the family needed Aunt Mira the most?

3. Why are the Misras brothers still living alone at their family home?

4. What did the boys say Tara looked like when her hair was cut off?

5. What do the Misras sisters want Bakul, Bim and Tara to do that night?

(see the answer key)

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