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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. At the end of Part II, Chapter 2, Raka searches for what creature under the stones?
(a) Cricket.
(b) Hen.
(c) Praying Mantis.
(d) Salamander.

5. What is the name of the club Raka ends up at instead of Carignano garden at the end of Part II, Chapter 5?
(a) Club Bazaar.
(b) Sanawar.
(c) Kasauli.
(d) Chandigarh.

6. What game did people from campus come to the Vice Chancellors to play?
(a) Uno.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Badminton.
(d) Parcheesi.

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Ila Das’ voice described in Chapter 6?

2. What does the name Raka mean?

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

4. Who does the main character hope does not come to her house in Chapter 1?

5. What is Ram Lal preparing for Raka at the start of Part II, Chapter 6?

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