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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Raka do while Nanda sits on a bench at the foot of Monkey Point?
(a) She runs away from Nanda.
(b) She sits with Nanda.
(c) She tells Nanda of her home life.
(d) She climbs Monkey Point.

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

3. In Part II, Chapter 13, Ram Lal tells Raka that he has seen her going to the ravine in the moonlight, which he says is unsafe because she can be seen by what?
(a) Club members.
(b) The police.
(c) The churails.
(d) Nanda.

4. Who refers to Raka as “the crazy one from Carignano” (91), at the end of Part II, Chapter 18?
(a) Ram Lal.
(b) The caretaker of the burnt house.
(c) Nanda.
(d) The taxi driver.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After seeing a headless man with a shawl dripping with blood, Raka runs off doing what?

2. Where does Nanda suggest they go for their walk in Part II, Chapter 7?

3. Where do Ram Lal and Raka talk to one another in the evening?

4. What does Raka sneak out to see at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 10?

5. What lake near her childhood home does Nanda tell Raka about at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nanda ask Raka if she would like to take to Monkey Point, and how does Raka respond?

2. How does Nanda respond when, after suggesting to Raka that she go to the club, Raka tells her grandmother that she does not go to the club?

3. Describe Raka’s behavior after Nanda tells her what she thought was a full moon was really a forest fire in Part II, Chapter 12?

4. In Part II, Chapter 15, what reason does Nanda give Raka for her wanting to move to Carignano to be alone?

5. What does Ram Lal tell Raka about churails in Part II, Chapter 13?

6. In Part II, Chapter 20 when Raka is outside with Nanda and sees the moon rise, she is disappointed that the light from the moon is not what?

7. What is Raka’s reaction to the wild costume party she sees at the club when she sneaks out in Part II, Chapter 10 and 11? What does it make her think of?

8. What does Nanda observe about Raka and Ram Lal’s relationship at the start of Part II, Chapter 13?

9. What do Raka and Nanda laugh at together on their walk to Monkey Point?

10. How does Raka feel about Carignano as described in Part II, Chapter 18?

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