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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On Brick Lane with Ila and Nick, what sweets does the narrator smell wafting out of a sweet-shop?
(a) Kheer.
(b) Indian milk balls.
(c) Carrot pudding.
(d) Rosogollas.

2. What month did the narrator fly back to Delhi after he came to London for a study fellowship?
(a) August.
(b) October.
(c) September.
(d) November.

3. How much did the narrator spend on a wedding gift for Il and Nick?
(a) 30 pounds.
(b) 20 pounds.
(c) 35 pounds.
(d) 25 pounds.

4. When Ila and the narrator played house under the table in Raibajar, when they were children who found them and comforted Ila?
(a) Tridib.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

5. How old was Robi in 1964?
(a) 13.
(b) 14.
(c) 11.
(d) 12.

6. Where was Francesca sent to an interment camp in 1940?
(a) Liverpool.
(b) Isle of Wight.
(c) Glasgow.
(d) Paignton.

7. When the narrator meets Ila and Nick to go shopping, what is Nick reading?
(a) Financial Times.
(b) Daily Mail.
(c) The Daily Telegraph.
(d) The Guardian.

8. When Tridib, May, and the narrator were driving to Diamond Harbor, what animal did they see in the road that May wanted to help?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Dog.
(c) Goat.
(d) Cat.

9. Who was the hero in a story that Snipe told Tridib in 1940 before Tridib and his parents returned to India?
(a) Olaf.
(b) Aeric.
(c) Tristan.
(d) Baldur.

10. What month in 1940 does the narrator remember that Dan grew tired of trying to sleep on mattresses below the stairs?
(a) October.
(b) September.
(c) November.
(d) August.

11. When May visited India, what did she give a cotton-man for playing his single-stringed tool?
(a) 1 rupee.
(b) 5 rupees.
(c) 10 rupees.
(d) 3 rupees.

12. What does Mrs. Price serve for Christmas eve when the author is in London on a study grant?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Goose.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Duck.

13. When the narrator is in London on a study grant, where does he spend Christmas Eve?
(a) Ila's.
(b) A hotel.
(c) Mrs. Price's.
(d) His boarding house.

14. What part of Dhaka was Mayadebi living in in 1964?
(a) Banani.
(b) Gulshan.
(c) Dhanmundi.
(d) Mirpur.

15. When Ila's parents came to look at a London flat for Ila and Nick, where did they come from?
(a) Rwanda.
(b) Burundi.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Kenya.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much taller was Kerry than the narrator?

2. When May had gone to meet Tridib for the first time, where did she plan to go first before she saw him?

3. When did the narrator's father become General Manager of his firm?

4. For when did the narrator's father buy a ticket to Dhaka for Tha'mma?

5. Where is the computer scientist from with whom Ila shares a house?

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