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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to leopard cats, peacocks, lorises, and a cub, what animal does Nanda tell Raka they had at her childhood home?
(a) Lions.
(b) Pangolin.
(c) Elephants.
(d) Giraffes.

2. Where does Raka think is the best place she has ever lived?
(a) New York.
(b) Carignano.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Kashmir.

3. How do Nanda and Raka feel watching the storm in Part II, Chapter 15?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Happy.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Restless.

4. In Part II, Chapter 20, when the moon rises and the jackals howls, Raka is disappointed that the light is not from what?
(a) A forest fire.
(b) A full moon.
(c) The Kasauli Club.
(d) The Bazaar.

5. At the end of Part II, Chapter 21, what does Nanda decide she will not leave to Raka after she dies?
(a) Her books.
(b) Her house.
(c) Her Buddha.
(d) Her car.

6. At the end of Part II, Chapter 21, what does Nanda think she should remove from her house?
(a) The Buddha.
(b) The telephone.
(c) Raka.
(d) Ram Lal.

7. The letter Nanda receives from Asha tells news of whom?
(a) Raka’s father.
(b) Ila Das.
(c) The Vice Chancellor.
(d) Tara.

8. After their walk to Monkey Point, Nanda stopped offering to walk with her and instead would do what during tea?
(a) Read.
(b) Listen to music.
(c) Watch T.V.
(d) Tell stories.

9. Where does Nanda suggest they go for their walk in Part II, Chapter 7?
(a) The bazaar.
(b) Kasauli club.
(c) Monkey Point.
(d) The post office.

10. What does Raka touch of Nanda’s in the drawing room, where they keep sheltered from the storm?
(a) The table.
(b) A bronze Buddha.
(c) The chair.
(d) Her books.

11. Nanda describes the Buddha as looking as though what “was less than dust to him” (85)?
(a) Nanda.
(b) Carignano.
(c) Raka.
(d) The Holocaust around him.

12. What do Nanda and Raka laugh together at when they are walking Chapter 7?
(a) Langur monkeys.
(b) Bul-buls.
(c) Hens.
(d) Jackals.

13. Where do Ram Lal and Raka talk to one another in the evening?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) By the Hamam.
(c) In the drawing room.
(d) In the guest room.

14. Nanda recites a poem to Raka by which poet in Part II, Chapter 7?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

15. How does Raka react to the information about her mother at the end of Part II, Chapter 17?
(a) With indifference.
(b) Scared.
(c) Happy.
(d) Sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raka imagine she is when she is atop Monkey Point in Part II, Chapter 8?

2. Nanda tells Raka that when her mother came to visit Carignano she sang that rainy days were what?

3. What lake near her childhood home does Nanda tell Raka about at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 19?

4. Who does Nanda tell Raka left her family behind after camping by a river in Kashmir?

5. As the fire burns, Raka goes to the window at night to see if it is any closer to where?

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