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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. How many patents did Lionel Tresawsen take out during the five years he lived in Malaysia?

2. When Ila was eight, how long did her father spend teaching in a university in the north of England?

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

4. Where does Ila offer to take the narrator to a Bangladeshi place for dinner after meeting Nick?

5. How old was Alan Tresawsen in 1939?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When the narrator comes to London on a study grant, how does he describe Mrs. Price?

3. When the narrator is nine, how long does Tridib stay away from Gole Park, and what reason does he give for his absence?

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

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

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

7. Why is Tha'mma wrong when she says that Tridib lives in his crumbling house doing nothing?

8. Who was Alan's friend, Dan?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are several versions regarding how Nick lost his job. What versions are there regarding how Nick lost his job? Why is the version Nick tells biased and not totally true?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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