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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 Tha'mma when her grandfather died?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 11.
(d) 8.
2. 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.
3. When did Tha'mma first start teaching in a girls' high school?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1941.
4. For when did the narrator's father buy a ticket to Dhaka for Tha'mma?
(a) February 1964.
(b) January 1964.
(c) March 1964.
(d) April 1964.
5. 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.
Short Answer Questions
1. What scent did May use when she stayed in the narrator's parents' guest room when she visited India?
2. When was Tridib's birthday?
3. How old was Tha'mma when her husband died?
4. Where was Kerry, the American art student who lived in the room next to the narrator in London, from?
5. When the narrator saw Ila before he returned home after his study fellowship, from where were the women that Nick was seeing on the side?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was the narrator late for the wedding dinner for Ila and Nick?
2. Why was Ila upset when she and the narrator met one last time before he returned to Delhi?
3. Where did May sleep in her flat and why?
4. How did Mike die?
5. What did May remember that Tridib's room looked like the first time she saw it?
6. Why does Ila think there is a kind of heroism in the deaths of Alan and Dan?
7. What did Tridib think of May when he saw her as a baby?
8. 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?
9. What happened between Tha'mma and the narrator's mother shortly after Tha'mma retired?
10. Who does Ila live with in London, and what do they do in the evenings?
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