79 pages • 2 hours read
Vikas SwarupQ & A
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Answer Key
Prologue
Reading Check
1. Dharavi (Prologue)
2. He is a waiter. (Prologue)
3. Billy Nada (Prologue)
4. Inspector Godbole (Prologue)
5. Smita Shah (Prologue)
Short Answer
1. The show cannot afford to pay Thomas the billion rupees promised, so they bribe the police to torture him until he confesses to cheating. (Prologue)
2. Godbole says that Thomas’s name mixes up all the religions. (Prologue)
Chapters 1-3
Reading Check
1. Armaan Ali (Chapter 1)
2. In a theater (Chapter 1)
3. A clothes bin at the Church of St. Mary (Chapter 2)
4. He was an astronomer. (Chapter 3)
Short Answer
1. Thomas watched Armaan Ali’s movie at the theater with Salim. (Chapter 1)
2. Six days after adopting him, his adoptive parents get a divorce and give him back to the church. (Chapter 2)
3. Father Timothy, the priest at the orphanage, is approached by two men from the Hindu and Muslim religions who tell the priest Thomas should have an Indian name. Father Timothy gives Thomas a Hindu name, Ram, and a Muslim name, Muhammed, to appease them.
