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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Francesca sent to an interment camp in 1940?
(a) Glasgow.
(b) Isle of Wight.
(c) Paignton.
(d) Liverpool.

2. Where was Kerry, the American art student who lived in the room next to the narrator in London, from?
(a) Denver.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Amarillo.

3. After Ila's wedding and the narrator stayed at May's flat, what did she fix him for breakfast?
(a) Toast, scrambled eggs, and tomato juice.
(b) Oatmeal and orange juice.
(c) Fried eggs, toast, and orange juice.
(d) Oatmeal and tomato juice.

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

5. What part of Dhaka was Mayadebi living in in 1964?
(a) Gulshan.
(b) Mirpur.
(c) Banani.
(d) Dhanmundi.

6. What is the narrator wearing when he waks from Charing Cross to Stockwell and Ila is disgusted by his clothes?
(a) T-shirt and faded blue jeans.
(b) Polo and blue jeans.
(c) Blue anorak and faded corduroy jeans.
(d) Red anorak and khakis.

7. Before the narrator left London, where did he arrange to meet Ila?
(a) Fulham.
(b) Trafalgar Square.
(c) Chiswick.
(d) Hampton Court.

8. What month in 1940 does the narrator remember that Dan grew tired of trying to sleep on mattresses below the stairs?
(a) August.
(b) October.
(c) September.
(d) November.

9. Where did Tha'mma grow up?
(a) Dhaka.
(b) Jaipur.
(c) Mumbai.
(d) Chennai.

10. When May and Tridib met in India, when was the last time he had seen her?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) When she was a baby.
(d) When she was a toddler.

11. How old was Tha'mma when she retired from teaching?
(a) 62.
(b) 65.
(c) 66.
(d) 60.

12. When was Tridib's birthday?
(a) September 30.
(b) September 19.
(c) September 4.
(d) September 25.

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

14. How much did the narrator spend on a wedding gift for Il and Nick?
(a) 35 pounds.
(b) 30 pounds.
(c) 20 pounds.
(d) 25 pounds.

15. How many years before Mayadebi's marriage was Tha'mma married?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator's family move after his father became General Manager of his firm?

2. How old was Robi in 1964?

3. When the narrator visits Brick Lane with Ila and Nick, what establishment is in the house that Alan Tresawsen used to live in?

4. What year did the narrator turn ten?

5. What day of the week did May fast?

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