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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 - Part II: Chapter 7 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Raka looks for Ram Lal at the end of Chapter 2, what does she find him doing?
(a) Reading.
(b) Napping.
(c) Heating her bath.
(d) Cooking Potatoes.

3. In Chapter 5, Nanda compares her great-grandaughter’s visit as putting what around her neck?
(a) A noose.
(b) A scarf.
(c) A necklace.
(d) Silk.

4. What is the name of the house Nanda lives in in Kasauli?
(a) Dal Lake.
(b) Kashmir.
(c) Carignano.
(d) Ram’s Lal.

5. Which former resident of Carignano “poked a fork into her cook’s neck when he was choking on a mutton bone in the belief it would make an aperture for him to breathe through” (9)?
(a) Miss Appleby.
(b) Mary Jo.
(c) Mavis.
(d) Miss Shrewsbury.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nanda’s cook’s name?

2. What is the title of Part II?

3. Who is the author of Fire on the Mountain?

4. What was the room Nanda’s husband slept in before she had his bed moved there?

5. How does Raka feel when Nanda offers to join her in Part II, Chapter 7?

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