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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color hair does Nick Price have?
(a) Ebony.
(b) Brown.
(c) Straw-colored.
(d) Blond.

2. When the narrator first meets Nick Price in London, where has Robi thought that Nick was spending his time?
(a) Kuwait.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) New York City.

3. When Ila was eight, how long did her father spend teaching in a university in the north of England?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) A year.
(d) 3 months.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what neighborhood did Nick Price grow up in London?

3. How many patents did Lionel Tresawsen take out during the five years he lived in Malaysia?

4. On Brick Lane, what did the mosque used to be?

5. How many years of Tha'mma's married life did she spend in a succession of railway colonies?

(see the answer key)

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