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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. What is the title of Part I?
(a) Nanda gets a visit.
(b) Nanda Kaul and Ram Lal.
(c) Nanda Kaul at Carignano.
(d) Nanda and the Vice Chancellor.

2. When Nanda bumps her leg in Part I, Chapter 10, what colors does she compare the bruise to?
(a) Old meat.
(b) Sunset.
(c) A fire.
(d) Eggplant.

3. What does Nanda consider putting in the guest room, but ultimately decides against?
(a) Books.
(b) Flowers.
(c) A refrigerator.
(d) Silk sheets.

4. Who had the house built for his wife in 1843?
(a) The Postman.
(b) A priest.
(c) Ram Lal.
(d) Colonel Macdougal.

5. What does Ram Lal suggest he cook for Raka in Chapter 9?
(a) Potato chips and ketchup.
(b) Cheeseburgers.
(c) Pizza.
(d) Spaghetti.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Fire on the Mountain?

2. What has Nanda been practicing for an hour each day since she lived in the Vice Chancellor’s?

3. What is Tara’s daughter’s name?

4. In Chapter 4, Nanda writes Asha to tell her what about Raka?

5. What is Tara’s daughter recovering from, according to the letter in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Nanda receives the letter, how does she think she will respond regardless of the request?

2. How do Raka and Nanda behave toward one another when Raka first arrives as described in Part II, Chapter 4?

3. In Chapter 2, what does the year 1947 signify in regards to Carignano?

4. What does Ram Lal tell Raka about the snake she tells him she saw in Part II, Chapter 6?

5. What is Nanda reading in Part I, Chapter 8 and what does it say?

6. What does Ram Lal tell Raka about the Pasteur Institute and why she should not go there at night?

7. The end of Part I, Chapter 7 tells of the Vice Chancellor dropping off a guest at her home. What does this description hint at to the reader?

8. Why did Nanda move to Carignano?

9. Though Raka has heard of the beauty of the Himalayas she is surprised nobody ever told her of the factory she sees from her window. What is the factory called and what does Ram Lal tell Raka about it?

10. How does Nanda feel about the hoopoe nest outside her window?

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