A Long Way From Home

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

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 15 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, what is especially difficult about the narrator's search?

• the search covers a huge area

• the search is in a foreign country

• the narrator no longer speaks Hindi

• the narrator remembers no landmarks

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 haven'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.

• As 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. Weeks and then months passed with my spending hours at a time every couple of nights on the laptop. Bryon made sure I spent other nights out in the real world so I didn't become an Internet recluse. Memoirs reveal what an author feels and thinks. Which of the following statements best reveals the author's feeling about his roommate Bryon?

• he resented Bryon for making him get out of the house

• he thought Bryon should spend less time partying

• he appreciated Bryon's friendship

• he was jealous of Bryon's life

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.

Read this sentence from the selection from A Long Way Home .

I zoomed back in and re-examined the ring road, the water tower, the overpass, and they were all positioned where I remembered them.

To what does the underlined technical term refer?

• natural speed

• geographical position

• physical direction

• visual enlargement

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 pm 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.

In the selection from A Long Way Home, what motivates the narrator to continue his search despite the challenges?

• A) A promise he made to his family

• B) A deep-seated need to find his roots

• C) The encouragement from his friends

• D) The financial reward of finding his home