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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease did Aunt Mira nurse Bim and Raja through?
(a) Chicken pox
(b) Smallpox
(c) Typhoid
(d) Cancer

2. Why is it so strange for Bim to ask Baba if he is going to the office that morning?
(a) Bim usually does not speak to Baba in the morning
(b) He is usually off on Tuesdays
(c) He has already mentioned going to the track that morning
(d) He is mentally retarded and never goes to the office

3. How does Bim recover from grieving for Aunt Mira
(a) Repeating the poem The Waste Land
(b) Bim begins going to church regularly
(c) She writes a long letter to Raja concerning their memories of Mira
(d) She spends time at Mira's grave, talking to her

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bim handle her anger at Raja for growing up and away from the other children?

2. Why does Aunt Mira ask the chidren's parents for a cow?

3. As a child, what was Tara always expecting?

4. How does Bim remember the incident?

5. Who is sitting on the veranda while Raja departs the family home?

(see the answer key)

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