Wider Reading

Question 1

‘Talk…walk…sit’

Answer 1

Jende from Behold The Dreamers

Question 2

‘life was different after 9/11’

Answer 2

Waris from Girl, Woman, Other by Everisto

Question 3

‘White picket fences and newly mowed lawns’

Answer 3

The Buddha In The Attic by Julia Ostaka

Question 4

‘Called me Arab, I’m not even Arab’

Answer 4

Waris from Girl, Woman, Other by Everisto

Question 5

‘happy holidays’ Indian christmas cards by Ashima

Answer 5

The Name Sake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Question 6

Chinese migrants set up restaraunts

Answer 6

Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet

Question 7

‘we cant get jobs’

Answer 7

Mo in The Lonely Londers

Question 8

Marriage of conveniences stories

Answer 8

Brick Lane by Monica Ali, The Buddha In The Attic

Question 9

‘the land of promise’

Answer 9

Chen in Sour Sweet

Question 10

‘There wasn’t a soul to be seen as dark-coloured as me’

Answer 10

A Long Way Home

Question 11

‘for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind’

Answer 11

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Question 12

‘The coat was the colour of a bride’s sari.’

Answer 12

Nazneen from Monica Ali’s, Brick Lane

Question 13

‘a rat-hole of a room occupied by a dozen other immigrants’ (on human trafficking)

Answer 13

America and I by Anzia Yezierska

Question 14

‘Only i couldn’t find it - my America’

Answer 14

America and I by Anzia Yezierska

Question 15

“The job is everything Ashoke had ever dreamed of”

Answer 15

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Question 16

‘Gogol and Sonia know these people, but they do not feel as close to them as their parents do’

Answer 16

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Question 17

‘they travel to and from New York, returning with pockets full of dollars’

Answer 17

Dominicana by Angie Cruz

Question 18

‘Marry me. I’ll take you to America’

Answer 18

Dominicana by Angie Cruz

Question 19

‘La Capital is in chaos. No law or order to speak of.’

Answer 19

Dominicana by Angie Cruz

Question 20

‘Well dunno, Africa ain’t it?’

Answer 20

Tommy Atkins, Small Island

Question 21

‘we members of the British Empire’

Answer 21

Gilbert, Small Island

Question 22

‘savages, jungles and swinging through trees’

Answer 22

Gilbert, Small Island

Question 23

‘opportunity is ripe out there’

Answer 23

Gilbert, Small Island

Question 24

‘They’re not our sort’

Answer 24

Bernard, Small Island

Question 25

‘no brooch or jewel’ ‘scruffy housecoat’

Answer 25

Hortense, Small Island

Question 26

‘rapidly closing in’ ‘me to detain you’

Answer 26

Changez, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Question 27

‘This whole corporate collegiality veneer only goes so deep’

Answer 27

Wainwright, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Question 28

‘each tenement was a village square’

Answer 28

Micheal Puzo’s The Fortunate Pligrim

Question 29

‘the corruption of the innocent by the new land’

Answer 29

Micheal Puzo’s The Fortunate Pilgrim

Question 30

‘they recalled ancient history and social law’ ‘southern Italy they had escaped’

Answer 30

Micheal Puzo’s The Fortunate Pilgrim

Question 31

‘Yuck!’ reaction to Dhal

Answer 31

Melanie from ‘Fasting Feating