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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 95b-151a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Tha'mma when her grandfather died?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

2. How often does the narrator's grandmother think that his mother should listen to the afternoon radio play?
(a) 4 times a week.
(b) 3 times a week.
(c) Not more than once a week.
(d) Just two times a week.

3. Where was May Price when the narrator's father visited her mother and brother?
(a) Erding.
(b) Bayreuth.
(c) Darmstadt.
(d) Hamburg.

4. Where does Ila offer to take the narrator to a Bangladeshi place for dinner after meeting Nick?
(a) Kensington.
(b) Brixton.
(c) Chelsea.
(d) Clapham.

5. What year did the narrator turn ten?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1964.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month in 1940 does the narrator remember that Dan grew tired of trying to sleep on mattresses below the stairs?

2. What did Dan have a degree in in 1939?

3. When Ila and the narrator were eight, how long had it been since Snipe Price died?

4. What does Tridib say is the house number of the widow Price who he visits in London?

5. When the narrator visits Brick Lane with Ila and Nick, what establishment is in the house that Alan Tresawsen used to live in?

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