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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 200b-246.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did Khalil and his wife have?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

2. On Brick Lane, what did the mosque used to be?
(a) Chapel.
(b) Synagogue.
(c) Baptist church.
(d) Cathedral.

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

4. How old were Lionel Tresawen's children when his wife determined they should move back to England?
(a) 12 and 10.
(b) 11 and 9.
(c) 8 and 6.
(d) 9 and 7.

5. When the narrator meets Nick Price, how long has it been since an incendiary bomb fell on Lymington Mansions and burned down two floors?
(a) 35 years.
(b) 43 years.
(c) 40 years.
(d) 37 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When May visited India, what did she give a cotton-man for playing his single-stringed tool?

2. How old was Alan Tresawsen in 1939?

3. Where was Saifuddin from?

4. Where does Ila want to take the narrator where there are cheap retail shops run by Indians and Bangladeshis?

5. What airline did the narrator fly on when he flew from London to Delhi after his study fellowship?

(see the answer key)

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