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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. What scent did May use when she stayed in the narrator's parents' guest room when she visited India?
(a) Rosewater.
(b) Hyacinth.
(c) Lavender water.
(d) Lily of the Valley.

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

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

4. Where do Ila and the narrator sleep on Christmas eve when they cannot go back to their lodgings?
(a) Attic.
(b) Basement.
(c) Living room.
(d) Dining room.

5. On Brick Lane with Ila and Nick, what sweets does the narrator smell wafting out of a sweet-shop?
(a) Carrot pudding.
(b) Indian milk balls.
(c) Kheer.
(d) Rosogollas.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the narrator wearing when he waks from Charing Cross to Stockwell and Ila is disgusted by his clothes?

4. When the narrator meets Ila and Nick to go shopping, what is Nick reading?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the narrator late for the wedding dinner for Ila and Nick?

2. After the narrator spent the night at May's after Ila's wedding, what did she fix him for breakfast and why did she not eat?

3. How did Ila's parents arrange for the present they got her and Nick for their wedding?

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

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

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

7. How did Alan Tresawsen die?

8. How does Tha'mma feel about a promotion Shaheb receives?

9. How did Dan die in 1940?

10. What was May's reaction to the Victoria Memorial, and how did Tridib try to help her?

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