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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 house Nanda lives in in Kasauli?
(a) Carignano.
(b) Dal Lake.
(c) Kashmir.
(d) Ram’s Lal.

2. Which of her children is Nanda’s letter from?
(a) Tara.
(b) Esme.
(c) Raka.
(d) Asha.

3. At the end of Part II, Chapter 6, Ram Lal and Raka take shelter inside from a dust storm leaving what still burning outside?
(a) Kasauli.
(b) The Hamam.
(c) Dinner.
(d) The garden.

4. What does the name Raka mean?
(a) Fire.
(b) Flower.
(c) Insect.
(d) Moon.

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

6. Who meets Raka at the taxi stand at the start of Part I, Chapter 10?
(a) Ram Lal.
(b) The taxi driver.
(c) Nanda.
(d) Isla Das.

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

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

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

10. Who were the party throwing owners of Carignano who lived there just prior to Nanda moving in?
(a) Raka and Asha.
(b) Miss Mavis and Miss Appleby.
(c) Miss Weaver and Miss Polson.
(d) The Hughes Sisters.

11. Who does Ila Das tell Nanda she wants to meet in Chapter 6?
(a) Raka.
(b) Ram Lal.
(c) The Vice Chancellor.
(d) Asha.

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

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

14. In Part II, Chapter 1, Raka and Nanda do what, “because they felt they must” (40)?
(a) Speak.
(b) Hug.
(c) Smile.
(d) Have tea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, the letter from Asha is about which of her daughters?

2. Who is the author of Fire on the Mountain?

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

4. Which former resident of Carignano once attacked the gardener for planting marigolds?

5. What does Ram Lal say he and Nanda are at the end of Chapter 9?

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