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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Mrs. Price's brother who she invited to meet The Shaheb, Mayadebi, and Tridib in 1939?
(a) William.
(b) Alan.
(c) Harry.
(d) Richard.

2. When Ila and the narrator were eight, how long had it been since Snipe Price died?
(a) 3 years.
(b) A year.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 2 years.

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

4. When the narrator saw Ila before he returned home after his study fellowship, from where were the women that Nick was seeing on the side?
(a) Martinique and Indonesia.
(b) France and Germany.
(c) South Africa and Jamaica.
(d) Haiti and Ghana.

5. What tutor does the narrator have in the afternoons on page 10?
(a) Math.
(b) Science.
(c) English.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years before Mayadebi's marriage was Tha'mma married?

2. Who was the hero in a story that Snipe told Tridib in 1940 before Tridib and his parents returned to India?

3. How many children did Khalil and his wife have?

4. When May had gone to meet Tridib for the first time, where did she plan to go first before she saw him?

5. Where was May Price when the narrator's father visited her mother and brother?

(see the answer key)

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