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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did her father give her mother injections?
(a) Her mother had t.b.
(b) Her mother had diabetes
(c) He was slowly poisoning her
(d) Her mother was a drug addict

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

3. Which neighbors do Bakul, Bim and Tara decide to visit that night?
(a) Hyder Ali Sahib
(b) Gandhi
(c) Aunt Mira's family
(d) Misras

4. What does Raja say as he is leaving for Hyderabad?
(a) That he knows his true love is Bim but he cannot have her
(b) That he wants Bim to send his books to him there
(c) That he will never come back
(d) That he will return to care for Bim and Baba

5. What are the names of the people everyone is talking about that summer, according to this novel?
(a) Gandhi, FDR, Churchill and Nehru
(b) Queen Elizabeth, Gandhi, Churchill and Nehru
(c) Gandhi, Mountbatten, Churchill, Jinnah and Nehru
(d) Gandhi, Clinton, Reagan and Bush

6. What does Baba do that surprises everyone?
(a) He begins speaking Spanish
(b) He leaves the house
(c) He announces his upcoming marriage
(d) He asks for pancakes for breakfast

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

8. What do the Misras sisters want Bakul, Bim and Tara to do that night?
(a) Iron their saris
(b) Stay for dinner
(c) Take the brothers to a bar
(d) Come to Calcutta with them

9. What does Dr. Biswas recommend as treatment for Aunt Mira?
(a) Give her alcohol
(b) Put her in a home
(c) Have her killed
(d) Counseling, and AA meetings

10. Who does Raja share his knowledge and dreams with in the family?
(a) Bimla
(b) Tara
(c) Baba
(d) The jet-black cat

11. How does Bim use this old letter from Raja?
(a) To blackmail Tara
(b) To remind her how angry she was when the letter came
(c) To remind her to pay the rent
(d) To remember her brother's handwriting

12. What does Bakul say to Tara when she decides to stay with her family that morning instead of going with him to New Delhi?
(a) She has made a wise decision that he agrees with
(b) He wants a divorce
(c) She deserves time with her family after spending so much time taking care of his needs
(d) She has gone back to being the hopeless person she was before he married her

13. Why are the Misras brothers still living alone at their family home?
(a) Their wives have left them for other men
(b) The Misras sisters have asked them to come home
(c) They were wounded in the war
(d) They are drunkards and their wives have left them

14. What is Bim's answer when Raja says he wants to grow up to be a hero?
(a) She says she wants to grow up to be a heroine
(b) She wants to be a sky diver
(c) She wants to be a veterinarian
(d) She wants to be a playwright

15. What illness does Raja get that summer?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Depression
(c) Venereal disease
(d) Cancer

Short Answer Questions

1. The sisters remember playing in the sand and along the banks of what nearby river?

2. In the summer of what year does Bim think time stopped for the family?

3. What goes wrong with Dr. Biswas and Bim?

4. What does Bim return with from Hyder Ali Sahib's house?

5. Who does Tara think Bim looks like?

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