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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Asha wish to send her daughter over the summer?
(a) Carignano.
(b) New York.
(c) Paris.
(d) Geneva.
2. At the end of Part II, Chapter 2, Raka searches for what creature under the stones?
(a) Hen.
(b) Praying Mantis.
(c) Salamander.
(d) Cricket.
3. What is Nanda’s cook’s name?
(a) Ram Lal.
(b) Asha.
(c) Raka.
(d) Tara.
4. What lake does Raka look at in Part II, Chapter 5?
(a) Chandigarh.
(b) Eerie.
(c) Kasauli.
(d) Dal.
5. What happened to the woman whose cottage burned down, according to the story Ram Lal tells in Part II, Chapter 6?
(a) She disappeared.
(b) She built a new house.
(c) She went crazy.
(d) She moved.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Tara’s daughter’s name?
2. Rather than opening the letter right away, Nanda watches what birds fight over an apricot?
3. Who does the main character hope does not come to her house in Chapter 1?
4. What creature does Raka observe at the start of Part II, Chapter 5?
5. What does Ram Lal tell Raka the factories she sees are called?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Raka and Nanda behave toward one another when Raka first arrives as described in Part II, Chapter 4?
2. When Nanda receives the letter, how does she think she will respond regardless of the request?
3. Describe Nanda’s feelings toward Ila Das based on their phone call in Part I, Chapter 6?
4. How is Nanda’s life at the Vice Chancellor’s house described in Part I, Chapter 5?
5. Why does Nanda send Ram Lal to the taxi stand to meet Raka when she first arrives rather than going herself?
6. What does the name Raka mean, and how does Nanda feel about that at the start of Part II?
7. Where does Raka find herself instead of at the Carignano garden when she is on one of her adventures in Part II, Chapter 5?
8. What does Ram Lal tell Raka of the house that had burned in a forest fire in a the end of Part II, Chapter 6?
9. In Chapter 1, why does Nanda Kaul hope the postman does not stop at her house?
10. What has Nanda been doing for one hour each day, even when she lived at the Vice Chancellor’s?
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