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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 151b-200a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the woman who sang when Ila, Robi, and the narrator went out together before Robi went back to Darjeeling?
(a) Miss Linda.
(b) Miss Jennifer.
(c) Miss Angelica.
(d) Miss Melinda.

2. What color were May's eyes?
(a) Brown.
(b) Grey.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

3. How many years of Tha'mma's married life did she spend in a succession of railway colonies?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 9.

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

5. When the narrator is in London on a study grant, where does he spend Christmas Eve?
(a) His boarding house.
(b) Mrs. Price's.
(c) A hotel.
(d) Ila's.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator meets Nick Price, how long has it been since an incendiary bomb fell on Lymington Mansions and burned down two floors?

2. How old was May in 1959?

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

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?

5. Where did Alan, Mike, Dan, and Francesca live in 1939?

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