QUES: Shady side of the city , 1 AM , humming Mariah Carey 's Touch My Body when I felt something hit my back . A metal pipe . One guy tried to snatch my phone from my hand . Another guy grabbed my shirt from the back and pulled it over my face .

Question with options: What exactly is happening during this event ?
ANS: The narrator is being robbed .
QUES: These high - pitched , excitable conversations were conducted in English peppered with lilting Gujarati and punctuated by laughter and squeals of delight or gasps of disbelief . And always , always , saturated by such infectious enthusiasm , that I wished I was party to their plans and promises and not an invisible spectator . I watched bags being unpacked and I smiled inwardly as a bevy of Indian beauties paraded in front of the salon mirrors , saris held up to their shoulders as they - and I - admired the richness of the fabric , the silvery scaled glinting of sequins as lengths of material were flicked and tossed and lovingly caressed and sighed over .

Question with options: What country is the narrator traveling in ?
ANS: They are in the country of India .
QUES: Occasionally his laughter would become a long , sensual moan , and Howard wondered if Vince was getting off in his dream , and with whom . Once Howard heard Vince call ' Howard ' over and again ; it was a panic - stricken plea with an undercurrent of yearning that made his heart ache . For an instant he wanted to wake Vince and hold him until the terror subsided . But he resisted , lying on his side and watching instead , begging for sleep to release him from his loneliness .

Question with options: Why is Howard so fond of Vince as a person ?
ANS: Howard is sexually attracted to Vince .
QUES: " It 's the spiders ! " I said . Every year at around this time , fat orange spiders about the size of a quarter make enormous webs , usually across human paths .

Question with options: What has spooked the narrator while walking ?
ANS:
They saw spiders .