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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tridib studying for his PhD?
(a) Education.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Archaeology.

2. What is Mrs. Price wearing when the narrator meets her?
(a) Military-green skirt, white blouse, and grey cardigan.
(b) Navy skirt, light-blue blouse, and navy cardigan.
(c) Black skirt, red blouse, and white cardigan.
(d) Brown skirt, cream blouse, brown cardigan.

3. Aftr Robi stopped Ila from dancing before he returned to Darjeeling, what did he give the waiter as they left?
(a) 50 rupees.
(b) 100 rupess.
(c) 75 rupees.
(d) 20 rupees.

4. What does Tridib say is the house number of the widow Price who he visits in London?
(a) 39.
(b) 13.
(c) 44.
(d) 58.

5. When did the narrator's father's aunt go to England with her husband and her son?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1939.

6. Why did Tridib go with his parents to London when he was 8?
(a) To visit family.
(b) His father had an operation.
(c) To visit friends.
(d) His father had a new job postings.

7. When was the narrator born?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1949.

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

9. What month was it when Ila's family took the narrator and his family to visit their old family house in Raibajar when they were ten?
(a) November.
(b) September.
(c) August.
(d) October.

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

11. In 1939, what newspaper did Dan give Tridib when he asked?
(a) Picture Post.
(b) Daily Worker.
(c) News Chronicle.
(d) Sphere.

12. What does Ila's mother allow to run free in her garden when they live in Colombo?
(a) Green forest lizard.
(b) Rhino horned lizard.
(c) Monitor lizard.
(d) Keeled Indian mabuya.

13. What did Mrs. Price remember that Tridib wanted to do when he grew up?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Engineer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Air-raid warden.

14. Why did Ila want to live in London?
(a) Her boyfriend lived there.
(b) To be free.
(c) To get a good job.
(d) To go to school.

15. What color eyes does Tridib say that Mrs. Price's daughter May has?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Gray.
(d) Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often might Tridib's parents spend a month or two in Calcutta?

2. When Tridib first talked to the narrator about his journey to England, how old was Tridib?

3. What address does Nick Price ask the narrator to find when they first meet?

4. What color hair does Nick Price have?

5. When Ila was eight, how long did her father spend teaching in a university in the north of England?

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