The Long Way Home

In the selection from A Long Way Home, what does the narrator remember about his original hometown? Choose two options.

• the language spoken there

• the name of the state

• the railway station

• the mountains

• the ocean

In the selection from A Long Way Home, how does the narrator use Google Earth to search for his original home?

• He focuses on every train station in India to find the one he remembers.

• He starts at Kolkata and searches the train lines working outward.

• He scans the entire map of India to find landmarks he recalls.

• He traces the rivers of India from the sea inland.

In the selection from A Long Way Home, what are the narrator’s reasons for looking for his long-lost home? Choose two options.

• to question his elders

• to understand his past

• to reclaim his inheritance

• to speak his native tongue

• to reconnect with his family

What is the first landmark found by the narrator of the selection from A Long Way Home that makes him believe that he may have found his destination?

• a school

• a windmill

• an alleyway

• a water tower

In the selection from A Long Way Home, what are the narrator’s reasons for looking for his long-lost home? Choose two options.

• to question his elders

• to understand his past

• to reclaim his inheritance

• to speak his native tongue

• to reconnect with his family

In the selection from A Long Way Home, why does the narrator’s girlfriend sometimes close his laptop and put it away?

• She wants him to give up his search.

• She believes that he is becoming too absorbed.

• She wants him to participate in the conversation.

• She fears that he will never succeed in finding his home.

Still, even with the possibility of some winding, irregular paths out of Howrah, there was also a limit to how far I could have been transported in the time frame. I’d spent, I thought, a long time on the train—somewhere between twelve and fifteen hours. If I made some calculations, I could narrow the search field, ruling out places too far away.

Why can the narrator now “narrow the search field”?

• He recognizes one of the irregular paths out of Howrah Station.

• He feels confident that faraway places do not connect to Howrah Station.

• He guesses that his home was less than fifteen hours from Howrah Station.

• He realizes that the winding paths from Howrah Station do not extend very far.

In the selection from A Long Way Home, how does the narrator feel about his search?

• He is certain that he will find his former home.

• He feels that he has embarked on a foolish quest.

• He worries that his family members are no longer alive.

• He struggles to manage and communicate his conflicting emotions.

Choose the author’s reflection that best reveals an important insight he has in his quest to find his childhood home in the selection from A Long Way Home.

• I hadn’t lived by the sea, although I couldn’t rule out that I’d lived near it. And I hadn’t lived in the mountains.

• So I had some vague thoughts on likely regions and some ways of identifying “Ginestlay” and the “B” place if I found them.

• I didn’t know how a girlfriend would take to the time-consuming

  quest.… But Lisa understood the personal and growing importance of the search and was patient and supportive.

• [A]s it dawned on me that I could turn this into a painstaking, deliberate task that simply required dedication, something clicked inside.… Seeing it almost as much an intellectual challenge as an emotional quest, I threw myself into solving it.

Read the following passage from the selection from A Long Way Home. Memoirs reveal what an author feels and thinks. Which of the following statements best reveals the author’s feeling about his roommate, Byron?

• He resented Byron for making him get out of the house.

• He thought Byron should spend less time partying.

• He appreciated Byron’s friendship.

• He was jealous of Byron’s life.