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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Price remember that Tridib wanted to do when he grew up?

2. When the narrator's father visited Mrs. Price and Nick, where were Mayadebi and the Shaheb?

3. What is the narrator's grandmother's occupation?

4. What does grandmother like to make Tridib and other visitors to eat?

5. When was the narrator born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say about his father's first meeting wih Nick?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does the narrator's grandmother not approve of Tridib?

8. Who was Alan's friend, Dan?

9. Who was Lionel Tresawsen?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 2

Even though they are cousins, the narrator has feelings for Ila. How long did the narrator have feelings for Ila? Why could those feelings never be acted upon?

Essay Topic 3

Ila, Robi, and the narrator go to a nightclub. Why is Robi upset with how Ila behaves at the nightclub? What does his attitude reveal about gender roles in India at that time?

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