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

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

3. What day of the week did May fast?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Saturday.

4. Where do Ila, Nick, and the narrator arrange to meet when Ila wants to take the narrator clothes shopping?
(a) Southhampton Arms.
(b) Chesham Arms.
(c) French House.
(d) Kembles Head.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Tha'mma when her husband died?

2. Where did the narrator have a room when he came to London for a study fellowship?

3. How many students did the school have when Tha'mma first started teaching at a girls' high school?

4. On Brick Lane, what did the mosque used to be?

5. What does Nick say that chartered accounts are paid when they start working in London?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Nick and Ila have two weddings, and what were their weddings like?

2. How did Alan Tresawsen die?

3. What happened when Tridib, May, and the narrator were driving to the Diamond Harbor?

4. What happened between Tha'mma and the narrator's mother shortly after Tha'mma retired?

5. What did Tridib think of May when he saw her as a baby?

6. What did May and the narrator do after breakfast the morning after he stayed at her flat?

7. Why does May say that Nick left his job in Kuwait?

8. What does Nick do for Ila and her housemates?

9. What happened when the narrator went to school in 1964 shortly after Tadib, May, and Tha'mma went to Dhaka?

10. What did May remember that Tridib's room looked like the first time she saw it?

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