From a Long Way Home

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.

Which sentence from the selection from A Long Way Home is the BEST example of the author’s use of descriptive details about his emotions?

• I watched as the town unpixelated before my eyes. It was quite small. Too small, surely. But with a child’s perspective. . .

• I finished work with Dad at five p.m., and by five-thirty I would be back at the laptop, slowly advancing along train tracks and studying the towns they led to.

• I thought my Indian friends from college might be able to help, especially Amreen, whose father would likely have a more educated guess, so I got in touch with them.

• The first time I zoomed in on Howrah Station, looking at the rows of ridged gray platform roofs and all the tracks spilling out of it like the fraying end of a rope, I was amazed and shocked that I'd once trod barefoot along these walkways.

What does the narrator remember about his original hometown? Choose two.

• the language spoken there

• the name of the state

• the railway station

• the mountains

Why is he looking for his long-lost home? Choose two.

• to question his religion

• to understand his past

• to reconnect with family

• to reclaim traditions

What is the first landmark Saroo recognizes during his search that makes him believe he may have found his home?

• a school

• a train station

• a windmill

• a water tower

How does Saroo feel about his search?

• certain he will find his former home

• foolish for trying

• worried his family is no longer alive

• He struggles with conflicting emotions.

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

Read the following passage from the selection from A Long Way Home. South beyond Orissa, I elimated Andhra Pradesh, five hundred kilometers farther down the east coast. Jharkhand and Bihar didn't offer up anything promising, either, and as I wound up in Uttar Pradesh, I thought I'd keep going to cover most of the state. In fact, the states eventually replaced my zone boundary as a way of marking my progress. Ruling out areas state by state provided a series of goals that spurred me on. Choose the sentence that best represents the central idea of the passage.

• Saroo realized he would not be successful searching near the coast.

• Saroo regretted changing his search method from using a zone boundary to using states.

• The state of Uttar Predesh was so large that Saroo had to search the whole state with care.

• The new method of searching by state gave Saroo clear goals that kept him going in his search.

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, why does the narrator's girlfriend sometimes close his laptop and put it away?

• she wants him to give up on 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