White Teeth Quizzes

White Teeth Quiz 1

1 What advice does Smith give the reader in the opening quote from E.M. Forster?
Pay attention to details.

Read the book once forwards and once backwards.

Forget the past in favor of the future.

Do not underestimate the power of the subconscious mind.
2 How does Archie attempt suicide?
With the cleaver Mo Hussein-Ishmael uses to kill pigeons.

By choking himself with a vacuum cleaner hose.

By inhaling carbon monoxide.

He merely contemplates suicide, but does not attempt it.
3 Why does Archie choose to die on Cricklewood Broadway?
He wants Mo Hussein-Ishmael to be the one to find his body.

He thinks it fitting of his life: quiet, urban, and unnoteworthy.

He thinks it fitting of his marriage: incongruous and loud.

His car runs out of gas there while he is driving to the cinema parking lot.
4 Why does Mo Hussein-Ishmael save Archie?
Out of his deep sense of morality.

He is merely trying to ask Archie to help him kill pigeons.

Archie is betrothed to his neice.

He is merely enforcing the no-parking rule on his street.
5 What spurred Archie's suicide attempt?
His in-laws ridiculed him to the point of despair.

He could no longer bear memories of the War.

His first wife, Ophelia, left him.

He lost his job.
6 What is wrong with Ophelia?
She is mentally unsound.

She cannot bear children.

She refuses to consummate her marriage.

She is unfaithful.
7 What is Archie's job at MorganHero?
He designs press releases for postage stamps.

He manages door-to-door Hoover vacuum sales.

He manages the affiliated Indian restaurant.

He designs the way in which things should be folded.
8 Which of the following does not apply to Horst Ibelgaufts?
He is a gynecologist.

He is Swedish.

He is Ophelia's former lover.

He tied Archie at the 1948 London Olympics.
9 Why does Archie like track cycling?
It is the only thing that has ever given him true joy.

The athlete can improve with each lap.

It allows him to remain seated.

The athlete is pitted against only himself.
10 What is Archie's unique talent in cycling?
He developed a one-of-a-kind folding bicycle.

He consistently improved each lap by .01 seconds.

He got precisely the same time on every lap.

He always came in thirteenth, no matter what.
11 Of whom does Archie last think before passing out in his car?
His best friend, Samad Iqbal.

His future second wife, Clara Bowden.

Daria, the prostitute with whom he slept after the Olympics.

His old cycling buddy, Horst Ibelgaufts.
12 Samad becomes a "parent-governer." What does that mean?
He no longer has to work in the restaurant.

He keeps very strict rules in his household.

He is very involved in his children's education.

He is chairman of the school governer's meetings.
13 Why is Samad against the Harvest Festival?
He wants it replaced by a Hindu holiday.

It occurs on a fast day, so his sons cannot join in.

He wants it replaced by a Muslim holiday.

It is pagan.
14 What does Poppy tell Samad she supports?
His strict parenting.

His prioritization of Magid over Millat.

His motion against the Harvest Festival.

His introducing Indian music to her pupils.
15 Why does Samad feel guilty when he is talking to Poppy?
He thinks she is ugly.

Alsana is waiting in the parking lot.

He gets an erection.

He knows she fancies him.
16 What does Samad do to try to make his erection subside?
He repeats his favorite sayings in his head.

He recites passages from the Qu'ran.

He brings Archie into the conversation.

He thinks of Alsana.
17 What saying does Samad use to justify masturbation?
"Spare the rod, spoil the child."

"All work and no play make Jack a dull boy."

"Can't say fairer than that..."

"To the pure all things are pure."
18 What saying does Samad use to justify exchanging masturbation for drink?
"To the pure all things are pure."

"The early bird gets the worm."

"Can't say fairer than that..."

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
19 According to Shiva, why don't relationships with English women work out?
English women expect too many material things.

Historical and cultural differences.

English women are all liars.

English women are accustomed to asexual Englishmen.
20 Why does Samad offer to drive the children to school?
Because he misses them.

To be closer to Poppy.

To stop the budding romance between Magid and Irie.

To see to their education personally.
21 Why do Magid and Irie take a vow of silence?
In protest of the shortening of summer vacation.

In protest of the Harvest Festival's demise.

Because they hate Music class with Poppy.

In remembrance of Indira Gandhi.
22 What did Magid do in order to defy his parents?
Brought cornucopias to school for the Harvest Festival.

Promised himself in marriage to Irie.

Made his friends call him Mark Smith.

Spoke openly against them at a school governer's meeting.
23 What does Samad do in Poppy's office?
Masturbates.

Declares his love for her.

Kisses her.

Renounces his love for Alsana.
24 Why do the children visit J.P. Hamilton?
As charity on behalf of Irie's church.

He is an old friend of Archie's from the Olympics.

As charity in honor of the Harvest Festival.

As community service for their demerits at school.
25 On what does J.P. Hamilton lecture the children?
The Second Coming of Christ.

The dangers of living in his neighborhood.

The importance of caring for their teeth.

The ravages of war.

In Patois, Irie means "Ok, cool, peaceful."

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