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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rama Lal tells Raka that a woman turned into what after looking at a churails feet?
(a) Stone.
(b) Dust.
(c) Glass.
(d) Bronze.

2. What does Ram Lal tell Raka churails live off of?
(a) Little girls.
(b) Flesh of the dead.
(c) Insects.
(d) Serum.

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

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

5. Where does the letter Nanda receives from Asha in Part II, Chapter 14 say Tara is?
(a) A hospital in Greece.
(b) An apartment in Punjab.
(c) A nursing home in Geneva.
(d) A nursing home in Kashmir.

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

7. The letter Nanda receives from Asha tells news of whom?
(a) Ila Das.
(b) Raka’s father.
(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) Watch T.V.
(c) Tell stories.
(d) Listen to music.

9. How does Nanda feel when Raka finally returns after scaling Monkey Point?
(a) Happy.
(b) Thankful.
(c) Hungry.
(d) Annoyed.

10. At the end of Part II, Chapter 14, Nanda considers leaving what to Raka?
(a) Her home.
(b) Her Buddha.
(c) Her books.
(d) Her car.

11. The beginning of Part II, Chapter 12, states that Raka’s “eyes darkened, as if with” what?
(a) Evil.
(b) Weariness.
(c) Makeup.
(d) A secret.

12. Nanda tells Raka that when her mother came to visit Carignano she sang that rainy days were what?
(a) Cricket days.
(b) Somber days.
(c) Lily days.
(d) Happy days.

13. Raka begged Ram Lal not to do what to the mother langur in Part II, Chapter 13?
(a) Throw a stone.
(b) Cook.
(c) Laugh at.
(d) Yell at.

14. In Part II, Chapter 20, Nanda suggests that Raka stay with her to hear what birds?
(a) Bul-buls.
(b) Hens.
(c) Hoopoes.
(d) Owls.

15. What does Raka imagine she is when she is atop Monkey Point in Part II, Chapter 8?
(a) Nanda.
(b) Ram Lal.
(c) Shipwrecked.
(d) Flying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ila Das having lunch with when she calls Nanda in Part II, Chapter 21?

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

3. What sound at the end of Part II, Chapter 11 sends Raka running home rather than to the ravine where she was headed?

4. What does Nanda tell Raka was needed in order to travel to Tibet back when her father went there when she was young?

5. At the end of Part II, Chapter 21, what does Nanda think she should remove from her house?

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