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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 50-95a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's grandmother's occupation?
(a) Schoolteacher.
(b) Professor.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Secretary.

2. How old was Alan Tresawsen in 1939?
(a) 31.
(b) 28.
(c) 33.
(d) 26.

3. When the narrator's grandmother is sick and dying, where is Ila studying?
(a) Coventry University.
(b) Bournemouth University.
(c) University College.
(d) University of Cambridge.

4. What was the name of Ila's doll and the name she gives the child she pretends to have when she and the narrator play house?
(a) Helga.
(b) Priscilla.
(c) Meredith.
(d) Magda.

5. How many siblings does Tridib have?
(a) 1 brother and a sister.
(b) 2 brothers.
(c) 2 brothers and a sister.
(d) 3 brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the narrator born?

2. When did the narrator's father's aunt go to England with her husband and her son?

3. How old was May in 1959?

4. When the narrator's father visited Mrs. Price and Nick, where were Mayadebi and the Shaheb?

5. When Ila was ten, what was the name of her ayah?

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