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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 old was Tha'mma when her husband died?
2. How much did the narrator spend on a wedding gift for Il and Nick?
3. Who was the hero in a story that Snipe told Tridib in 1940 before Tridib and his parents returned to India?
4. When Ila's parents came to look at a London flat for Ila and Nick, where did they come from?
5. What month did the narrator fly back to Delhi after he came to London for a study fellowship?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did May remember that Tridib's room looked like the first time she saw it?
2. What does Nick do for Ila and her housemates?
3. What did May and the narrator do after breakfast the morning after he stayed at her flat?
4. What happened between Tha'mma and the narrator's mother shortly after Tha'mma retired?
5. How does Tha'mma feel about a promotion Shaheb receives?
6. Why did Nick and Ila have two weddings, and what were their weddings like?
7. What is Brick Lane like when the narrator visits with Nick and Ila?
8. Why does Ila think there is a kind of heroism in the deaths of Alan and Dan?
9. Why was the narrator late for the wedding dinner for Ila and Nick?
10. What did Tridib think of May when he saw her as a baby?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Tha’mma grew up in a house with a large extended family. How many branches of the family lived in the house where Tha’mma grew up? What challenges did the residents face because of the complicated family dynamics?
Essay Topic 2
The narrator is able to imagine places and people he has never met. How is the narrator able to imagine places and people he has never met? How does he use his imagination to bring stories he hears to life enough that he can go somewhere he has never been and find his way?
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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