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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 address does Nick Price ask the narrator to find when they first meet?
(a) 19 Braidwood Passage.
(b) 56 Half Moon Court.
(c) 39 Adam's Court.
(d) 44 Lymington Road.

2. Aftr Robi stopped Ila from dancing before he returned to Darjeeling, what did he give the waiter as they left?
(a) 100 rupess.
(b) 50 rupees.
(c) 20 rupees.
(d) 75 rupees.

3. How old was Tha'mma when her husband died?
(a) 29.
(b) 27.
(c) 34.
(d) 32.

4. Who was the hero in a story that Snipe told Tridib in 1940 before Tridib and his parents returned to India?
(a) Olaf.
(b) Tristan.
(c) Baldur.
(d) Aeric.

5. When May had gone to meet Tridib for the first time, where did she plan to go first before she saw him?
(a) Chennai and Agra.
(b) Delhi and Agra.
(c) Delhi and Jaipur.
(d) Mumbai and Agra.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ila want to live in London?

2. When Ila and the narrator played house under the table in Raibajar, when they were children who found them and comforted Ila?

3. What month did the narrator fly back to Delhi after he came to London for a study fellowship?

4. What type of coat did Ila wear when the met the narrator before he left London?

5. Where was Kerry, the American art student who lived in the room next to the narrator in London, from?

(see the answer key)

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