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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I Kolla.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At night, what does young Triton dream of?
(a) Revenge against Mr. Salgado.
(b) Revenge against Joseph.
(c) Going to the beach with the neighbor girl.
(d) Going back to his family.

2. How does Joseph react when Triton shortens the broom handle?
(a) Complains bitterly.
(b) Buys a new broom.
(c) Locks him in the basement.
(d) Laughs good-naturedly.

3. After recording information about his car, what does the narrator do?
(a) Waxes his car.
(b) Closes his cans of paint.
(c) Takes his old battery in for recycling.
(d) Goes to pay for the gasoline.

4. How long has the narrator been out of Sri Lanka?
(a) Less than a month.
(b) More than twenty years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Twelve years.

5. What do the police and neighbors discover at house number eight?
(a) The wife rubs hot chillies all over her husband as punishment for his indiscretions.
(b) The husband is drunk and cranks up the volume of the radio and television.
(c) A visiting classical singer is trying to stay there without being noticed by the neighbors.
(d) The wife steps on a cluster of poisonous scorpions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the individual who approaches the cashier and narrator begin to do?

2. Why is the cashier impressed with the narrator?

3. Alone in the house, Triton falls asleep. When he is awakened by a sound, what does he think it is?

4. What compensation does Joseph get, and what warning does he get, at the end of "Kolla"?

5. What does Mr. Salgado's house represent to Triton when he is a boy?

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