Chapter 20 + 21

Question 0

He is standing there, legs apart,

Answer 0

Gnawing at whatever nourishment he can find.

Question 1

In order to work he had to

Answer 1

Somehow ignore it’s presence

Question 2

And she is … Into it

Answer 2

Retching heartily

Question 3

He face is … And white as the

Answer 3

Beaded with perspiration

Flesh of a fish fillet in the supermarket

Question 4

Jogging beside the … Rod

Answer 4

Transcendent

Question 5

Could compete of even keep up with this

Answer 5

Gladiatorial species of northern power

Question 6

Arun finds himself nodding since he

Answer 6

Cannot convey to her what he would give to join the two men instead

Question 7

Stuffing them in so forcefully that she might be angry.

Answer 7

Arun is alarmed

Question 8

At that moment he has had enough

Answer 8

Of her compassion

Question 9

‘We don’t know how

Answer 9

To eat. We’ve got to learn’

Question 10

She smiles a

Answer 10

Bright, plastic copy of a mother-smile

Question 11

A smile that is tight with pressure, the pressure to perform a role, to make

Answer 11

Him eat, make him grow, make his worth all the trouble and effort and expense.

Question 12

He is reminded, fleetingly, of

Answer 12

Beggars on Indian streets

Question 13

On the other side of the world, he is caught up again in the

Answer 13

Sugar-sticky web of family conflict