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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 151b-200a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does May tell the narrator that Nick wants to do for a career?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Manufacturer.
(d) Lawyer.

2. When the narrator is in London on a study grant, where does he spend Christmas Eve?
(a) Mrs. Price's.
(b) His boarding house.
(c) A hotel.
(d) Ila's.

3. Where did Tha'mma grow up?
(a) Chennai.
(b) Jaipur.
(c) Mumbai.
(d) Dhaka.

4. When Ila, Robi, and the narrator went out before Robi went back to Darjeeling, how many men were in the band at the nightclub?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. What is Mrs. Price wearing when the narrator meets her?
(a) Brown skirt, cream blouse, brown cardigan.
(b) Military-green skirt, white blouse, and grey cardigan.
(c) Black skirt, red blouse, and white cardigan.
(d) Navy skirt, light-blue blouse, and navy cardigan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of tree did Nityananda teach Robi to climb when his family lived in Dhaka?

2. When Ila's parents came to look at a London flat for Ila and Nick, where did they come from?

3. How old was Robi in 1964?

4. What did May do the first time she met Tridib?

5. What does Nick say that chartered accounts are paid when they start working in London?

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