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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Bim direct her anger to?
(a) Baba
(b) The cow
(c) Mira
(d) The cat

2. How does Bim react to her sister's problems at school
(a) She defends Tara against the other children
(b) She complains to Raja and asks him to fix it
(c) She ignores her sister and joins in with the teasing
(d) She goes to the teachers and asks them for help

3. Bakul is waiting for them on the veranda. What music greets the sisters when they join Bakul?
(a) Country music from the Misras home
(b) Baba's old 78 records
(c) Bakul's transister radio
(d) Aunt Mira playing the flute

4. What poet does Bim read to Raja to make him calm down?
(a) Maya Angelou
(b) Sylvia Plath
(c) Byron
(d) Browning

5. Why is Tara carrying a set of keys on a chain around her waist?
(a) She likes the sound it makes when she walks
(b) She cannot find her purse
(c) She found these keys in Bim's desk and Bim gave them to her
(d) Bakul has asked her to keep the keys to their trunks and suitcases

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bim think of his statement?

2. How did the climate affect the children?

3. Where does Baba get the gramophone?

4. What does Bim pull out of the desk to show to Tara that night?

5. Why does Dr. Biswas think Bim is not interested in his courtship?

(see the answer key)

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