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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many patents did Lionel Tresawsen take out during the five years he lived in Malaysia?
(a) 20.
(b) 25.
(c) 18.
(d) 11.

2. When did the narrator's father become General Manager of his firm?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1967.

3. Where did Alan, Mike, Dan, and Francesca live in 1939?
(a) Gravel Lane.
(b) Quality Court.
(c) Brick Lane.
(d) Lakeside Terrace.

4. When Ila and the narrator played house under the table in Raibajar, when they were children who found them and comforted Ila?
(a) Tridib.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

5. What was the name of the woman who sang when Ila, Robi, and the narrator went out together before Robi went back to Darjeeling?
(a) Miss Melinda.
(b) Miss Linda.
(c) Miss Jennifer.
(d) Miss Angelica.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator meets Nick Price, how long has it been since an incendiary bomb fell on Lymington Mansions and burned down two floors?

2. Where did May take the narrator after they collected money for famine relief?

3. Where did the narrator's family move after his father became General Manager of his firm?

4. When the narrator saw Ila before he returned home after his study fellowship, from where were the women that Nick was seeing on the side?

5. When the narrator's grandmother was dying, where was he going to school?

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