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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III A Thousand Fingers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Miss Nili and Mr. Salgado get ready to attend the Mahaweli Scheme inauguration party, Triton gets the sense that things are ___.
(a) Not what they seem.
(b) Slipping away.
(c) Going great.
(d) Incomprehensible.

2. After the cashier shares information about himself with the narrator, what does he ask?
(a) If the narrator lives nearby.
(b) If the narrator is married.
(c) Where the narrator went to school.
(d) How the narrator likes London.

3. While working for Mr. Salgado, how does Triton educate himself?
(a) Watching educational television shows.
(b) Reading his neighbor's schoolbooks.
(c) His employer hires a tutor for him.
(d) Sneaking into the neighborhood school while his employer naps.

4. Once inside the office, what does the narrator ask the cashier?
(a) How long he's been in England.
(b) Who helps him escape from Sri Lanka.
(c) Why he leaves his wife behind.
(d) Where he lives.

5. After Miss Nili stops working at The Sea Hopper Hotel, what dream does she develop?
(a) To get married and have five children.
(b) To start a school for chefs.
(c) To become a tour guide in the island's pearl district.
(d) To build her own hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the cashier turn off the outside lights?

2. How does Joseph react when Triton shortens the broom handle?

3. In response to the intrusion upon the conversation between him and the narrator, what does the cashier do?

4. When Joseph is in Mr. Salgado's room, what does he do when Triton finds him there?

5. One evening, Miss Nili and Mr. Salgado argue about what to do because Nili wants to go out but Salgado wants to ___.

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