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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 - Part II: Chapter 7 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Raka feel when Nanda offers to join her in Part II, Chapter 7?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Thrilled.
(d) Unhappy.

2. The beginning of Part II, Chapter 12, states that Raka’s “eyes darkened, as if with” what?
(a) A secret.
(b) Makeup.
(c) Evil.
(d) Weariness.

3. When Raka looks for Ram Lal at the end of Chapter 2, what does she find him doing?
(a) Cooking Potatoes.
(b) Heating her bath.
(c) Reading.
(d) Napping.

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

5. Who is the author of Fire on the Mountain?
(a) Anita Dennis.
(b) Anita Desai.
(c) Anne Desai.
(d) Desa Anita.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nanda recites a poem to Raka by which poet in Part II, Chapter 7?

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

3. After seeing a headless man with a shawl dripping with blood, Raka runs off doing what?

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

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)?

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