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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. Who does the main character hope does not come to her house in Chapter 1?
(a) Ram Lal.
(b) The police.
(c) The grainseller.
(d) The postman.

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

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

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

5. In Part II, Chapter 1, Raka and Nanda do what, “because they felt they must” (40)?
(a) Hug.
(b) Speak.
(c) Smile.
(d) Have tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Raka ignores Nanda with ease, Nanda realizes that her “rejection of the child” was what?

2. What book is Nanda reading at the start of Part I, Chapter 8?

3. In Chapter 7, Nanda recalls her husband coming home after dropping off how many guests after a badminton game?

4. What does Ram Lal say he and Nanda are at the end of Chapter 9?

5. Where does Asha wish to send her daughter over the summer?

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