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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. Who were the party throwing owners of Carignano who lived there just prior to Nanda moving in?
(a) The Hughes Sisters.
(b) Miss Mavis and Miss Appleby.
(c) Raka and Asha.
(d) Miss Weaver and Miss Polson.

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

3. What is Nanda’s cook’s name?
(a) Raka.
(b) Asha.
(c) Tara.
(d) Ram Lal.

4. In Chapter 5, Nanda thinks of her life at the Vice Chancellor’s house in what state?
(a) New York.
(b) Kashmir.
(c) Punjab.
(d) Switzerland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Nanda been practicing for an hour each day since she lived in the Vice Chancellor’s?

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

3. Which former residents of Carignano planted carnations and a yellow rose creeper, which was still there when Nanda moved in?

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

5. When was Nanda’s house built?

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