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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 - Part III: Chapters 1 -13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nanda consider putting in the guest room, but ultimately decides against?
(a) Books.
(b) A refrigerator.
(c) Silk sheets.
(d) Flowers.

2. At the end of Part II, Chapter 17, Raka asks Nanda about what?
(a) When she will go home.
(b) Why she lives with Ram Lal.
(c) Why she moved to Carignano.
(d) The letter that arrived.

3. What had Raka’s parents told her of the beauty of, which she sees out her window at Carignano?
(a) The Pasteur Institute.
(b) The Himalayas.
(c) Nanda’s Garden.
(d) Carignano.

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

5. What does Raka run to see at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 18?
(a) The babas.
(b) The burnt house.
(c) A forest fire.
(d) A langur.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part II, Chapter 8, Raka recalls parties her father had taken to her as what for both her and her mother?

2. At the start of Part II, Chapter 7, after finishing their tea, Nanda says she will join Raka to do what?

3. At the end of Part II, Chapter 21, what does Nanda think she should remove from her house?

4. After leaving her position at the college, what did Ila Das take a course to become, at Nanda’s suggestion?

5. Raka tells Ram Lal of the snake she saw and he tells her it is a daman, which means what?

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