View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chanu do after having been in England for almost thirty years?

2. When Nazneen is sick, Dr. Azad recommends:

3. Where Chanu says he will talk to her employer about Nazneen receiving more money, Nazneen:

4. What does Chanu tell his daughters?

5. Chanu came home once when:

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nazneen get Mrs. Islam to forgive the debt?

2. What does Nazneen tell Karim?

3. What happens that accelerates Chanu's plan to move his family to Bangladesh?

4. Why is Nazneen concerned when Chanu wants her to attend the Bengal Tigers meeting?

5. When Nanzeen tells Karim of the plans to move to Bangladesh, what does he tell her?

6. Why doesn't Nazneen talk to Raiza about Karim?

7. Why does Hasina write in the letter to her sister?

8. How does Nazneen learn of the tickets for Bangladesh?

9. What does the entire family attend?

10. After almost thirty years in England, why does Chanu decide to go sightseeing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nazneen was never very enthused about returning to Bangladesh. Why? What did it mean for her to leave England? Would her life have been harder in Bangladesh?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Chanu become increasingly better toward the English? What indications are there of this? How does Nazneen deal with the situation?

Essay Topic 3

Both Hasina and Nazneen grew up in the same household but they both chose different paths. Discuss this situation. Why would Hasina break with the tradition of her culture and flee her village? Why would Nazneen make the choices she makes?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 617 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample