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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 was the name of the narrator's best friend at the time Tha'mma retired from teaching?
(a) Gupreet.
(b) Anil.
(c) Ranvir.
(d) Montu.

2. When May and the narrator met again after Ila's wedding, how long had it been since May's visit to India to see Tridib?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 21 years.
(c) 17 years.
(d) 24 years.

3. How old was Tha'mma when her husband died?
(a) 32.
(b) 34.
(c) 27.
(d) 29.

4. What month did the narrator fly back to Delhi after he came to London for a study fellowship?
(a) October.
(b) November.
(c) August.
(d) September.

5. When the narrator meets Ila and Nick to go shopping, what is Nick reading?
(a) The Daily Telegraph.
(b) Financial Times.
(c) Daily Mail.
(d) The Guardian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do Ila, Nick, and the narrator arrange to meet when Ila wants to take the narrator clothes shopping?

3. Where did Tha'mma grow up?

4. What part of Dhaka was Mayadebi living in in 1964?

5. Before the narrator left London, where did he arrange to meet Ila?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Dan die in 1940?

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

5. Why does Nick say that he left his job in Kuwait?

6. How did Mike die?

7. 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?

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

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

10. Why does Ila think there is a kind of heroism in the deaths of Alan and Dan?

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