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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2 - Part I: Chapters 8-10 and Part II: Chapters 1 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the section of the book Nanda is reading at the start of Part I, Chapter 8?
(a) The Opulence of Loneliness.
(b) Pillow for One.
(c) When a Woman Lives Alone.
(d) How to Decorate a Lonely Home.

2. What does Ram Lal tell Raka the factories she sees are called?
(a) The Kasauli Laboratory.
(b) Pasteur Institute.
(c) The Himalaya Institute.
(d) The Carignano Labs.

3. Though Raka ignores Nanda with ease, Nanda realizes that her “rejection of the child” was what?
(a) Infuriating.
(b) Painful.
(c) Easy.
(d) Planned.

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

5. At the end of Part II, Chapter 6, Ram Lal and Raka take shelter inside from a dust storm leaving what still burning outside?
(a) The Hamam.
(b) Dinner.
(c) Kasauli.
(d) The garden.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of her children is Nanda’s letter from?

4. In Chapter 4, the letter from Asha is about which of her daughters?

5. At the end of Part II, Chapter 2, Raka searches for what creature under the stones?

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