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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Tridib when he went to England with his parents?
(a) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

2. When did the narrator's grandmother write a letter to his college?
(a) Week before she died.
(b) Day before she died.
(c) Day she died.
(d) Month before she died.

3. How old was Mayadebi when she went to England with her husband and her son?
(a) 33.
(b) 29.
(c) 27.
(d) 31.

4. How old was Alan Tresawsen in 1939?
(a) 28.
(b) 31.
(c) 26.
(d) 33.

5. How old was Nick Price when the narrator's father first met him?
(a) 11.
(b) 13.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Ila's doll and the name she gives the child she pretends to have when she and the narrator play house?

2. What is the name of the little girl who does not like Ila's pretend daughter when Ila and the narrator play house?

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

4. 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?

5. What did Dan have a degree in in 1939?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where and when did the narrator meet May Price?

2. What is the room like where Mrs. Price directs the narrator when he visits?

3. What does Nick say about Kuwait?

4. What was known about an injury Alan Tresawsen had?

5. Where was Robi headed when Ila and the narrator met him at the Kembles Head, a pub, in London?

6. How did a monitor lizard save Ila when she and her parents lived in Colombo?

7. What is the story of a very large table that is stored at the old family house in Raibajar?

8. Who was Lionel Tresawsen?

9. How did the narrator feel about the Underground in London?

10. How does Tha'mma keep the flat where the family lives so they cannot waste their time?

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