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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the woman whose cottage burned down, according to the story Ram Lal tells in Part II, Chapter 6?
(a) She went crazy.
(b) She built a new house.
(c) She disappeared.
(d) She moved.

2. What is the title of Part I?
(a) Nanda Kaul and Ram Lal.
(b) Nanda gets a visit.
(c) Nanda Kaul at Carignano.
(d) Nanda and the Vice Chancellor.

3. Which former residents of Carignano planted carnations and a yellow rose creeper, which was still there when Nanda moved in?
(a) Miss Mavis and the pastor.
(b) The Applebys.
(c) The Hughes sisters.
(d) The Shrewsburys.

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

5. In Chapter 5, Nanda compares her great-grandaughter’s visit as putting what around her neck?
(a) Silk.
(b) A scarf.
(c) A necklace.
(d) A noose.

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

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

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) Weekly.
(d) Hourly.

9. What is Nanda’s cook’s name?
(a) Tara.
(b) Ram Lal.
(c) Asha.
(d) Raka.

10. Ram Lal tells Raka in Part II, Chapter 3 to avoid the factory at night because of what creatures, which come out at night?
(a) Monsters.
(b) Owls.
(c) Coyotes.
(d) Jackals.

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

12. What does Nanda consider putting in the guest room, but ultimately decides against?
(a) Books.
(b) Silk sheets.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A refrigerator.

13. Where does Asha wish to send her daughter over the summer?
(a) Geneva.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York.
(d) Carignano.

14. 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)?
(a) Mary Jo.
(b) Miss Appleby.
(c) Miss Shrewsbury.
(d) Mavis.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the main character of Fire on the Mountain’s name?

3. Chapter 9 describes how Nanda moved to Carignano after what event in her life?

4. Nanda compares Raka’s round eyes to what?

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

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