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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 - Part III: Chapters 1 -13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Part II, Chapter 8, Raka recalls parties her father had taken to her as what for both her and her mother?
(a) Fancy.
(b) Exciting.
(c) Wild.
(d) Painful.

3. At the end of Part II Chapter 7, Nanda asks Raka if she would like to go where in Kasauli?
(a) The movies.
(b) Shopping.
(c) A party.
(d) School.

4. What does Raka run to see at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 18?
(a) The babas.
(b) A forest fire.
(c) The burnt house.
(d) A langur.

5. Who is Ila Das having lunch with when she calls Nanda in Part II, Chapter 21?
(a) Ram Lal.
(b) Miss Wright.
(c) Asha.
(d) Raka.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game did people from campus come to the Vice Chancellors to play?

2. Who notices a change in Raka at the start of Part II, Chapter 12, after Raka witnesses the costume party?

3. In Part II, Chapter 16, whose things does Nanda tell Raka her home was filled with?

4. What does the freakish ball at the club make Raka think of at the end of Part II, Chapter 11?

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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