1. How does Bim handle her anger at Raja for growing up and away from the other children?
(a) She uses a punching bag in the gardner's shed
(b) She takes long walks by the river
(c) She watches hours of television
(d) She becomes cruel to Tara

2. What event at school upsets Tara so much she lies to avoid it?
(a) Charity Thursdays
(b) Spelling tests
(c) Sports Day
(d) Class picture day

3. Why does Aunt Mira ask the chidren's parents for a cow?
(a) She wanted to murder a cow
(b) The milk they had been getting delivered was watered down
(c) She wants a pet
(d) It was cheaper than buying from the grocery store

4. Who was called to care for Baba when the mother grew tired of him?
(a) Aunt Mira
(b) The cow
(c) The cook
(d) Tara

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

6. At what age was Aunt Mira widowed?
(a) 17
(b) 25
(c) 15
(d) 50

7. Where did Bim and Raja go to cool off in the summer evenings?
(a) Hyder Ali Sahib's house
(b) The River Jumna
(c) The family kitchen
(d) The mall

8. Whose letter does Tara read to Bim?
(a) From her daughters
(b) From Aunt Mira to their mother
(c) From their mother to their father
(d) A letter to Tara from Raja

9. What does Tara see in Bim that she never saw before?
(a) Hatred of Baba
(b) Meanness, cruelty, shaking, talking to herself and hoarding money and food
(c) Beauty and peace
(d) Inability to understand simple concepts

10. What sort of books does Tara read?
(a) Non-fiction
(b) Science fiction
(c) Adventure
(d) Romances

11. What honor did Raja receive in school?
(a) Member of the National Honor Society
(b) One of his poems won a prize
(c) Quarterback for the football team
(d) Most Popular

12. Which of the children first grows tired of Aunt Mira's ministrations and leaves the home for other adventures?
(a) Baba
(b) Bim
(c) Raja
(d) Tara

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

14. When Raja is away from home one afternoon, what do Bim and Tara do?
(a) They put on his clothes, imitate him, disturb his papers in his room and smoke his cigarettes
(b) They cleaned his room and put fresh flowers in it
(c) They drank his private stash of whiskey and tore his magazines
(d) They moved his bed to the lawn

15. Who of the family needed Aunt Mira the most?
(a) Baba
(b) The father
(c) The mother
(d) Tara