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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 many students did the school have when Tha'mma first started teaching at a girls' high school?
(a) 50.
(b) 35.
(c) 30.
(d) 45.

2. When Robi was in boarding school, how long did a bully he beat up have to spend in the hospital?
(a) 4 days.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 1 day.
(d) 3 days.

3. What month in 1940 does the narrator remember that Dan grew tired of trying to sleep on mattresses below the stairs?
(a) November.
(b) September.
(c) August.
(d) October.

4. What did Ila, Robi, and the narrator drink when they went to a nightclub before Robi returned to Darjeeling?
(a) Mixed drinks.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Beer.
(d) Wine.

5. When was the Great Terror in Calcutta?
(a) 1960s and 1970s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1950s and 1960s.
(d) 1940s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Ila, Nick, and the narrator arrange to meet when Ila wants to take the narrator clothes shopping?

2. For how many years was Tha'mma headmistress of the school where she taught?

3. What month was it when Ila's family took the narrator and his family to visit their old family house in Raibajar when they were ten?

4. When did the narrator's grandmother write a letter to his college?

5. When was the narrator born?

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