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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did the boys say Tara looked like when her hair was cut off?
(a) Roy Rogers
(b) A dog
(c) A pigeon
(d) A turtle
2. How does Bim handle her anger at Raja for growing up and away from the other children?
(a) She becomes cruel to Tara
(b) She watches hours of television
(c) She takes long walks by the river
(d) She uses a punching bag in the gardner's shed
3. What episode at school upset Tara's emotions so much she seem obsessed with one of the teachers?
(a) A teacher elopes with Sharma
(b) Two of the teachers fall in love
(c) A female teacher falls in love with Tara
(d) A female teacher was found to be having an affair with a local monk
4. How does Aunt Mira treat Baba?
(a) She pushes him too hard to achieve things
(b) She ignores him
(c) She loves him and teaches him how to take care of himself
(d) She is afraid of him and avoids him
5. How was Baba different from the other children?
(a) He was brilliant, a quick learner and early to walk and talk
(b) He was very slow to progress and did not talk
(c) He was darker in skin color
(d) He could see into the future
6. Who does Bim direct her anger to?
(a) The cow
(b) Mira
(c) Baba
(d) The cat
7. Who was sent to fetch them?
(a) Aunt Mira
(b) Hyder Ali
(c) Tara and Baba
(d) The Misras brothers
8. Which of the children grew up to become exactly what they said they wanted to be as a child?
(a) Raja a hero
(b) Tara, becoming a mother
(c) Bim the teacher
(d) Baba the insurance salesman
9. What happens on one of these summer evenings that makes an impression on all of the children?
(a) They find a dead cow in the river
(b) A group of soldiers march by
(c) The river floods and Baba nearly drowns
(d) Hyder Ali Sahib rides past them on his great white horse
10. What is one of the most memorable actions she takes against Tara?
(a) Bim suspends Tara's telephone rights
(b) Biim exposes Tara to a swarm of bees
(c) Bim cuts off all of Tara's hair
(d) Bim tells Aunt Mira lies about Tara
11. When Raja is away from home one afternoon, what do Bim and Tara do?
(a) They cleaned his room and put fresh flowers in it
(b) They put on his clothes, imitate him, disturb his papers in his room and smoke his cigarettes
(c) They drank his private stash of whiskey and tore his magazines
(d) They moved his bed to the lawn
12. How many children does Raja have?
(a) One son and six daughters
(b) Five - four daughters and a son
(c) One son
(d) Three daughters and two sons
13. Why does Bim become angry at Tara?
(a) Tara's description of her own life and that of Raja makes Bim feel excluded
(b) Tara has made false accusations against Bim
(c) Bim is jealous of Tara's wardrobe
(d) Tara is behaving like a child
14. What has happened to the Misras sisters' husbands?
(a) They have died
(b) They have divorced the sitsers
(c) They have abandoned the sisters
(d) They have been lost at sea
15. What honor did Raja receive in school?
(a) Most Popular
(b) Quarterback for the football team
(c) Member of the National Honor Society
(d) One of his poems won a prize
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Bakul treat Tara?
2. Whose letter does Tara read to Bim?
3. What big event is happening at Raja's house?
4. What episode at school disturbed Tara deeply and made her think of blood?
5. Who was called to care for Baba when the mother grew tired of him?
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