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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1 - Part I: Chapters 1 - 7 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Part I?
(a) Nanda and the Vice Chancellor.
(b) Nanda Kaul at Carignano.
(c) Nanda Kaul and Ram Lal.
(d) Nanda gets a visit.

2. 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 Shrewsbury.
(b) Mavis.
(c) Mary Jo.
(d) Miss Appleby.

3. Where does Asha wish to send her daughter over the summer?
(a) Paris.
(b) Carignano.
(c) New York.
(d) Geneva.

4. Which former resident of Carignano once attacked the gardener for planting marigolds?
(a) Miss Hughes.
(b) Miss Mavis.
(c) Miss Appleton.
(d) Miss Appleby.

5. Which of her children is Nanda’s letter from?
(a) Asha.
(b) Esme.
(c) Raka.
(d) Tara.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Ila Das’ voice described in Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 5, Nanda compares her great-grandaughter’s visit as putting what around her neck?

3. In Chapter 5, Nanda thinks of her life at the Vice Chancellor’s house in what state?

4. What is the name of the pastor’s wife who had made several unsuccessful attempts to kill him in Carignano?

5. Rather than opening the letter right away, Nanda watches what birds fight over an apricot?

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