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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Buys her own clothes.
(b) Puts herself to bed.
(c) Pays her own bills.
(d) Cooks for herself.

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

3. What does Nanda tell Raka is “everywhere” (57) in Part II, Chapter 7?
(a) Sadness.
(b) The army.
(c) Peace.
(d) Insects.

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

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

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

7. After seeing a headless man with a shawl dripping with blood, Raka runs off doing what?
(a) Soaring.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Crying.
(d) Doing Cartwheels.

8. Who refers to Raka as “the crazy one from Carignano” (91), at the end of Part II, Chapter 18?
(a) Ram Lal.
(b) The caretaker of the burnt house.
(c) Nanda.
(d) The taxi driver.

9. 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) Crickets.
(b) Hens.
(c) Langurs.
(d) Owls.

10. In Part II, Chapter 12, Nanda tells Raka that houses may burn and maybe even what?
(a) Monkey Point.
(b) Carignano.
(c) Whole villages.
(d) The Pasteur Institute.

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) Ram Lal call.
(b) An owl hoot.
(c) Nanda call.
(d) A jackal cry.

12. What does Raka see outside in the morning after the storm at the start of Part II, Chapter 17?
(a) Sunshine.
(b) Birds.
(c) Lilies.
(d) Langurs.

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 nuisance.
(c) Endearing.
(d) A challenge.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What arrives at Carignano at the start of Part II, Chapter 14?

2. What does Raka see at the top of the hill near the small charred cottage?

3. At the end of Part II, Chapter 17, Raka asks Nanda about what?

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

5. What does Raka sneak out to see at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 10?

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