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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 Tara’s daughter recovering from, according to the letter in Chapter 4?
(a) Typhoid.
(b) Flu.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Measles.

2. What does the name Raka mean?
(a) Moon.
(b) Fire.
(c) Insect.
(d) Flower.

3. When was Nanda’s house built?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1804.

4. What lake does Raka look at in Part II, Chapter 5?
(a) Kasauli.
(b) Dal.
(c) Chandigarh.
(d) Eerie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part I?

2. What is Tara’s daughter’s name?

3. Who does the main character hope does not come to her house in Chapter 1?

4. What does Ram Lal tell Raka they make in the factories?

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

(see the answer key)

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