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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 200b-246.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was there a war with Pakistan?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1971.

2. How many students did the school have when Tha'mma first started teaching at a girls' high school?
(a) 45.
(b) 30.
(c) 50.
(d) 35.

3. What is the only game that the narrator's grandmother has in the house?
(a) Mahjong.
(b) Ludo set.
(c) Chess.
(d) Checkers.

4. What did Dan have a degree in in 1939?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) English literature.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) Medieval history.

5. In 1941, of the foursome--Alan, Mike, Dan, and Francesca--which of them would be dead in 1941?
(a) Alan and Francesca.
(b) Alan, Mike, and Dan.
(c) Francesca.
(d) All of the them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator remember selling on street-corners to raise money for the Chinese/Indian war?

2. When Ila was ten, what was the name of her ayah?

3. When Tridib took May and the narrator to the Victoria Memorial, what did Tridib give the narrator to get something to eat?

4. What address does Nick Price ask the narrator to find when they first meet?

5. What was the name of the narrator's mathematics teacher in 1964?

(see the answer key)

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