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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nanda tell Raka the letter said about her mother?
(a) That she died.
(b) That she was coming to visit.
(c) That she was better.
(d) That she was ill.

2. What does the freakish ball at the club make Raka think of at the end of Part II, Chapter 11?
(a) Ram Lal’s stories.
(b) Nanda’s house.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her abusive father.

3. Though Nanda prefers solitude, she cannot help but try to encourage Raka to go where to be among people?
(a) Punjab.
(b) Kashmir.
(c) The Pasteur Institute.
(d) School or the club.

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

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

6. At the end of Part II, Chapter 13, Raka and Ram Lal try to shoo away a band of what, which had descended on the apricot trees and hydrangeas?
(a) Owls.
(b) Hens.
(c) Langurs.
(d) Crickets.

7. In Part II, Chapter 14, Nanda thinks of how independent Raka is, and how she does what, unlike all other children she has known?
(a) Pays her own bills.
(b) Cooks for herself.
(c) Puts herself to bed.
(d) Buys her own clothes.

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

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

10. What does Nanda ask Raka if she would like to take to Monkey point in Part II, Chapter 12?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A train.
(c) A pony ride.
(d) A boat.

11. Who is Ila Das having lunch with when she calls Nanda in Part II, Chapter 21?
(a) Ram Lal.
(b) Raka.
(c) Miss Wright.
(d) Asha.

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

13. Nanda struggles to find a way to keep Raka’s interested in Part II, Chapter 20 and realizes that Raka’s indifference is what to Nanda?
(a) Humorous.
(b) A challenge.
(c) A nuisance.
(d) Endearing.

14. As the fire burns, Raka goes to the window at night to see if it is any closer to where?
(a) The Kasauli Club.
(b) The Pasteur Institute.
(c) Carignano.
(d) Monkey Point.

15. Nanda tells Raka that the full moon she thinks she sees in Part II, Chapter 12 is really what?
(a) A forest fire.
(b) Lights from the Institute.
(c) Street Lights.
(d) Searchlights.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nanda feel when Raka finally returns after scaling Monkey Point?

2. Where does Ila Das call Nanda from in Part II, Chapter 21?

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

4. What do Nanda and Raka watch together during tea at the start of Part II, Chapter 15?

5. What does Ram Lal place on the breakfast table in Part II, Chapter 17?

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