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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I Kolla.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a young servant for Mr. Salgado, Triton's regular duties include what?
(a) Serving tea and sweeping floors.
(b) Milking cows and gathering eggs.
(c) Watering plants and taking food to the poor.
(d) Organizing books and catching fish.

2. What does the individual who approaches the cashier and narrator begin to do?
(a) Cries loudly.
(b) Calls their names.
(c) Laughs out loud.
(d) Hammers at the window.

3. Alone in the house, Triton falls asleep. When he is awakened by a sound, what does he think it is?
(a) Mr. Salgado returning.
(b) Wind knocking a window open.
(c) Stray cat.
(d) A robber.

4. What do Triton, Mr. Salgado, and others in the neighborhood hear coming from house number eight?
(a) Loud music.
(b) Beautiful singing.
(c) Piercing screams.
(d) Terrible howl.

5. When Triton gets up to investigate the source of the sound in the house, he finds Joseph in Mr. Salgado's room. What is the man doing there?
(a) Reading Mr. Salgado's diary.
(b) Rubbing cologne on his chest.
(c) Stealing money.
(d) Trying out Mr. Salgado's clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has the narrator been out of Sri Lanka?

2. Who is Lucy-amma?

3. In the story, who is Joseph?

4. The region of Sri Lanka that the cashier comes from is once what?

5. How does Joseph react when Triton shortens the broom handle?

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