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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. What is the title of the section of the book Nanda is reading at the start of Part I, Chapter 8?
(a) How to Decorate a Lonely Home.
(b) The Opulence of Loneliness.
(c) Pillow for One.
(d) When a Woman Lives Alone.

2. What lake near her childhood home does Nanda tell Raka about at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 19?
(a) Lake India.
(b) Carignano.
(c) Kasauli.
(d) Dal Lake.

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

4. The novel ends with Raka telling Nanda that she had just done what?
(a) Made dinner.
(b) Killed Ila Das.
(c) Set a forest fire.
(d) Killed Ram Lal.

5. What does Ram Lal tell Raka they make in the factories?
(a) Buddha Statues.
(b) Candy.
(c) Serum for injections.
(d) Clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nanda tell Raka her bronze Buddha was purchased?

2. Who does Nanda tell Raka bought the bronze Buddha in her drawing room?

3. After leaving her position at the college, what did Ila Das take a course to become, at Nanda’s suggestion?

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

5. At the end of Part II, Chapter 20, Raka, bored of Nanda’s conversation, hopes that who will come rescue her?

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