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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Raka see at the top of the hill near the small charred cottage?
(a) A new house.
(b) Stones for a house.
(c) A jackal.
(d) Ram Lal.

3. What does Raka do while Nanda sits on a bench at the foot of Monkey Point?
(a) She runs away from Nanda.
(b) She tells Nanda of her home life.
(c) She climbs Monkey Point.
(d) She sits with Nanda.

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

5. 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) Buys her own clothes.
(d) Puts herself to bed.

6. Who does Nanda tell Raka left her family behind after camping by a river in Kashmir?
(a) Nanda’s grandfather.
(b) Nanda.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

7. Who calls Nanda at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 21?
(a) Tara.
(b) Raka.
(c) Asha.
(d) Ila Das.

8. What does Raka sneak out to see at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 10?
(a) The burnt cottage.
(b) Monkey Point.
(c) A big party at the club.
(d) The jackals.

9. 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.

10. What does Raka run to see at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 18?
(a) The babas.
(b) The burnt house.
(c) A langur.
(d) A forest fire.

11. What sound at the end of Part II, Chapter 11 sends Raka running home rather than to the ravine where she was headed?
(a) Nanda call.
(b) Ram Lal call.
(c) An owl hoot.
(d) A jackal cry.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Nanda decides against writing a will because she does not want to have to invite who over?

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

3. In addition to leopard cats, peacocks, lorises, and a cub, what animal does Nanda tell Raka they had at her childhood home?

4. What does Nanda tell Raka the letter said about her mother?

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

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