1. At the end of Part II, Chapter 21, what does Nanda decide she will not leave to Raka after she dies?
(a) Her house.
(b) Her books.
(c) Her Buddha.
(d) Her car.

2. Who calls Nanda at the start of Chapter 6?
(a) Tara.
(b) Asha.
(c) Ila Das.
(d) Ram Lal.

3. After seeing a headless man with a shawl dripping with blood, Raka runs off doing what?
(a) Soaring.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Crying.
(d) Doing Cartwheels.

4. Nanda recites a poem to Raka by which poet in Part II, Chapter 7?
(a) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

5. Who notices a change in Raka at the start of Part II, Chapter 12, after Raka witnesses the costume party?
(a) Nanda.
(b) Ram Lal.
(c) Nobody.
(d) Tara.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part II, Chapter 13, Ram Lal tells Raka that he has seen her going to the ravine in the moonlight, which he says is unsafe because she can be seen by what?

2. Nanda tells Raka that the full moon she thinks she sees in Part II, Chapter 12 is really what?

3. According to the description in Chapter 5, how did others view Nanda when she lived in the Vice Chancellor’s house?

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

5. Nanda describes the Buddha as looking as though what “was less than dust to him” (85)?

(see the answer key)

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