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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What day of the week did the narrator visit Mrs. Price before he flew from London to Delhi after his study fellowship?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Friday.

2. What does Nick say that chartered accounts are paid when they start working in London?
(a) 8,000 pounds.
(b) 15,000 pounds.
(c) 10,000 pounds.
(d) 12,000 pounds.

3. What was the name of the narrator's mathematics teacher in 1964?
(a) Mrs. Miller.
(b) Mrs. Baker.
(c) Mrs. Anderson.
(d) Mrs. Robinson.

4. When Ila's parents came to look at a London flat for Ila and Nick, where did they come from?
(a) Rwanda.
(b) Kenya.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Burundi.

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

6. What airline did the narrator fly on when he flew from London to Delhi after his study fellowship?
(a) Singapore Airlines.
(b) Thai Airways.
(c) Qatar Airways.
(d) United.

7. When Tridib took May and the narrator to the Victoria Memorial, what did Tridib give the narrator to get something to eat?
(a) 15 rupees.
(b) 5 rupees.
(c) 8 rupees.
(d) 10 rupees.

8. How old was Tha'mma when her grandfather died?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 11.

9. When the narrator visits Brick Lane with Ila and Nick, what establishment is in the house that Alan Tresawsen used to live in?
(a) Restaurant.
(b) Car rental.
(c) Apparel shop.
(d) Travel agency.

10. Who was the hero in a story that Snipe told Tridib in 1940 before Tridib and his parents returned to India?
(a) Aeric.
(b) Baldur.
(c) Tristan.
(d) Olaf.

11. When Ila and the narrator played house under the table in Raibajar, when they were children who found them and comforted Ila?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Tridib.
(d) Her father.

12. What brand of jackets does Nick wear when the narrator first meets him?
(a) Armani.
(b) Versace.
(c) Dolce & Gabbana.
(d) Valentino.

13. Where is Ila's housemate from who is in the Anti-Nazi League?
(a) Ghana.
(b) Ethiopa.
(c) Uganda.
(d) South Africa.

14. For how many years was Tha'mma headmistress of the school where she taught?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

15. When May visited India, what did she give a cotton-man for playing his single-stringed tool?
(a) 3 rupees.
(b) 1 rupee.
(c) 10 rupees.
(d) 5 rupees.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ila's parents buy her and Nick a flat in London?

2. How much taller was Kerry than the narrator?

3. When was the Great Terror in Calcutta?

4. When May and the narrator met again after Ila's wedding, how long had it been since May's visit to India to see Tridib?

5. What day did Tridib, May, and Tha'mma leave for Dhaka when May first visited Tridib in India?

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