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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Raka imagine she is when she is atop Monkey Point in Part II, Chapter 8?
(a) Nanda.
(b) Ram Lal.
(c) Flying.
(d) Shipwrecked.

2. Where does Nanda tell Raka her bronze Buddha was purchased?
(a) Tibet.
(b) Punjab.
(c) Kashmir.
(d) Geneva.

3. What does Nanda tell Raka is “everywhere” (57) in Part II, Chapter 7?
(a) Insects.
(b) The army.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Peace.

4. Who does Nanda tell Raka left her family behind after camping by a river in Kashmir?
(a) Nanda’s grandfather.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Nanda.

5. At the end of Part II, Chapter 21, what does Nanda think she should remove from her house?
(a) Ram Lal.
(b) The telephone.
(c) The Buddha.
(d) Raka.

6. Raka begged Ram Lal not to do what to the mother langur in Part II, Chapter 13?
(a) Cook.
(b) Yell at.
(c) Throw a stone.
(d) Laugh at.

7. Who notices a change in Raka at the start of Part II, Chapter 12, after Raka witnesses the costume party?
(a) Nanda.
(b) Tara.
(c) Nobody.
(d) Ram Lal.

8. How does Raka feel when Nanda offers to join her in Part II, Chapter 7?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Thrilled.
(d) Unhappy.

9. At the beginning of Part II, Chapter 20, when Raka comes home, what does Nanda tell her she is nothing like?
(a) Nanda.
(b) A mountain.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The moon.

10. Nanda can see that Ram Lal intrigues Raka as well as makes her feel what?
(a) Interesting.
(b) Funny.
(c) Safe.
(d) Smart.

11. Where do Ram Lal and Raka talk to one another in the evening?
(a) In the drawing room.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) By the Hamam.
(d) In the guest room.

12. What sound at the end of Part II, Chapter 11 sends Raka running home rather than to the ravine where she was headed?
(a) An owl hoot.
(b) Ram Lal call.
(c) A jackal cry.
(d) Nanda call.

13. After seeing a headless man with a shawl dripping with blood, Raka runs off doing what?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Doing Cartwheels.
(c) Crying.
(d) Soaring.

14. What does the freakish ball at the club make Raka think of at the end of Part II, Chapter 11?
(a) Nanda’s house.
(b) Her abusive father.
(c) Ram Lal’s stories.
(d) Her grandmother.

15. At the end of Part II, Chapter 13, Raka and Ram Lal try to shoo away a band of what, which had descended on the apricot trees and hydrangeas?
(a) Langurs.
(b) Crickets.
(c) Hens.
(d) Owls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raka touch of Nanda’s in the drawing room, where they keep sheltered from the storm?

2. Nanda tells Raka that when her mother came to visit Carignano she sang that rainy days were what?

3. At the end of Part II, Chapter 20, Raka, bored of Nanda’s conversation, hopes that who will come rescue her?

4. What does Nanda say there is never enough of that time of year to put out the fires?

5. Who calls Nanda at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 21?

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