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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Bim use this old letter from Raja?
(a) To remind her to pay the rent
(b) To blackmail Tara
(c) To remember her brother's handwriting
(d) To remind her how angry she was when the letter came
2. What does Baba do that surprises everyone?
(a) He asks for pancakes for breakfast
(b) He begins speaking Spanish
(c) He leaves the house
(d) He announces his upcoming marriage
3. What does Tara say she wants to be when she grows up?
(a) A caregiver
(b) A card player
(c) A mother
(d) A teacher
4. What goes wrong with Dr. Biswas and Bim?
(a) Dr. Biswas is of a different religion
(b) His mother does not like her, and Bim does not really like him
(c) There is too great an age difference
(d) Bim's father disapproves of Dr. Biswas
5. Who does Raja share his knowledge and dreams with in the family?
(a) Bimla
(b) Tara
(c) The jet-black cat
(d) Baba
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Bim and the old man discuss?
2. Where has Bakul been posted when he comes to ask Bim for permission to marry Tara?
3. How often do Bakul and Tara visit Bim and Baba?
4. What kind of business did the Misras brothers have and lose?
5. Why does Dr. Biswas think Bim is not interested in his courtship?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Tara's purpose in coming to the family home?
2. Why does Dr. Biswas feel a sense of failure after talking to Bim about Raja's tuberculosis?
3. Why do you think the children's parents are at the club playing bridge every night?
4. Why do the children think of their father as the master of the entrance and the exit?
5. What is the importance in the plot of the Misras brother, Mulk, and his drunkeness
6. Describe Aunt Mira's behavior in this chapter.
7. Describe how Bim sees her brother's poems now.
8. Describe the way Bim speaks to Tara, to Bakul and to Baba.
9. Why does Bim show the letter from Raja to Tara?
10. Why does Raja choose Hindu College over his original choice?
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