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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the pastor’s wife who had made several unsuccessful attempts to kill him in Carignano?
(a) Mavis.
(b) Miss Hughes.
(c) Miss Appleby.
(d) Mary.

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

3. Nanda compares Raka’s round eyes to what?
(a) An insect.
(b) Cookies.
(c) Two moons.
(d) Goggles.

4. Who had the house built for his wife in 1843?
(a) A priest.
(b) The Postman.
(c) Ram Lal.
(d) Colonel Macdougal.

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

6. In Chapter 4, Nanda writes Asha to tell her what about Raka?
(a) That Raka is ill.
(b) That Raka is annoying.
(c) That Raka disappears for hours.
(d) That she arrived safely.

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

8. In Part II, Chapter 4, how often did Nand ask Raka where she had been when she would disappear for hours?
(a) Daily.
(b) Never.
(c) Hourly.
(d) Weekly.

9. What does Ram Lal say he and Nanda are at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) Hilarious.
(b) Sad.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Old.

10. Raka tells Ram Lal of the snake she saw and he tells her it is a daman, which means what?
(a) A monkey.
(b) A fire.
(c) A rat snake.
(d) A jackal.

11. What is the name of the house Nanda lives in in Kasauli?
(a) Carignano.
(b) Ram’s Lal.
(c) Dal Lake.
(d) Kashmir.

12. At the end of Part II, Chapter 1, Nanda still sees Raka as a what?
(a) Roommate.
(b) Lifesaver.
(c) Intruder.
(d) Friend.

13. How does the book Nanda is reading say a woman’s house should look when she lives alone?
(a) Neat and tidy.
(b) Regal.
(c) Extremely dilapidated.
(d) Elegant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Nanda been practicing for an hour each day since she lived in the Vice Chancellor’s?

2. Which former residents of Carignano planted carnations and a yellow rose creeper, which was still there when Nanda moved in?

3. 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)?

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

5. What was the room Nanda’s husband slept in before she had his bed moved there?

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