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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What vehicle does the narrator own when the story opens?
(a) Renault.
(b) Volkswagen.
(c) Honda.
(d) Fiat.

3. When Triton finds himself alone with Joseph at Mr. Salgado's house, what is he afraid of?
(a) That Joseph's brothers beats him up.
(b) That Joseph forces him to sleep outside, under the bridge.
(c) That Joseph starves him.
(d) That Joseph throws him into the bay.

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

5. After the cashier shares information about himself with the narrator, what does he ask?
(a) How the narrator likes London.
(b) Where the narrator went to school.
(c) If the narrator lives nearby.
(d) If the narrator is married.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the gas station cashier on the job?

2. What languages does the cashier say he speaks?

3. In response to the intrusion upon the conversation between him and the narrator, what does the cashier do?

4. In the story, who is Joseph?

5. Who is Lucy-amma?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is young Triton brought to Mr. Salgado's home?

2. What happens in 1962, when Triton's narration begins?

3. At the end of the first section, what does the narrator begin to talk about with the gas station cashier?

4. Where does this story begin?

5. What happens when Mr. Salgado returns home from his trip to the tea estate?

6. Why does the gas station cashier want the narrator to speak with his boss?

7. What does Triton do right after he fills up the tank of his old Volkswagen?

8. When the cashier asks the narrator if he lives close by, what does the man reply?

9. What does the London cashier say about the situation back home in Sri Lanka?

10. The narrator speaks with a gas station cashier. How experienced is the cashier with his job?

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