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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 years before Mayadebi's marriage was Tha'mma married?
2. Who was the hero in a story that Snipe told Tridib in 1940 before Tridib and his parents returned to India?
3. How much did the narrator spend on a wedding gift for Il and Nick?
4. When May visited India, what did she give a cotton-man for playing his single-stringed tool?
5. After Ila's wedding, where did May and the narrator go to collect money for famine relief?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Ila upset when she and the narrator met one last time before he returned to Delhi?
2. 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?
3. What was May's reaction to the Victoria Memorial, and how did Tridib try to help her?
4. What did Tridib think of May when he saw her as a baby?
5. What did May remember that Tridib's room looked like the first time she saw it?
6. Where did May sleep in her flat and why?
7. Why does Nick say that he left his job in Kuwait?
8. What does the narrator say about Tha'mma's job?
9. Why does Ila think there is a kind of heroism in the deaths of Alan and Dan?
10. How did Dan die in 1940?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Foreshadowing is a method authors use to hint at events to come in a novel. How does the author use foreshadowing in the book? Does the use of foreshadowing create suspense?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Tha’mma is a very opinionated and domineering woman. In what way is Tha’mma a very opinionated and domineering woman? How does that affect her relationship with her family?
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