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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. At the end of Part II, Chapter 17, Raka asks Nanda about what?
(a) When she will go home.
(b) Why she moved to Carignano.
(c) Why she lives with Ram Lal.
(d) The letter that arrived.

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

3. In Part II, Chapter 20, when the moon rises and the jackals howls, Raka is disappointed that the light is not from what?
(a) The Bazaar.
(b) A forest fire.
(c) A full moon.
(d) The Kasauli Club.

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

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) Puts herself to bed.
(c) Cooks for herself.
(d) Buys her own clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls Nanda at the beginning of 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. After seeing a headless man with a shawl dripping with blood, Raka runs off doing what?

4. At the end of Part II, Chapter 20, Raka, bored of Nanda’s conversation, hopes that who will come rescue her?

5. What do Nanda and Raka laugh together at when they are walking Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Nanda tell Raka are destroying her quiet little place?

2. Why is Raka dismayed when Nanda says she will join her on her walk after tea in Part II, Chapter 7?

3. What is Raka’s reaction to the wild costume party she sees at the club when she sneaks out in Part II, Chapter 10 and 11? What does it make her think of?

4. Even though Nanda prefers solitude, what does she continue to suggest to Raka as described in Part II, Chapter 9?

5. Describe Raka’s behavior after Nanda tells her what she thought was a full moon was really a forest fire in Part II, Chapter 12?

6. What fantastical stories does Nanda tell her about the things her father kept at their home in Kashmir?

7. What does Nanda ask Raka if she would like to take to Monkey Point, and how does Raka respond?

8. What does Nanda ask Raka if she would like to do at the end of Part II, Chapter 7, which suggests she does not want Raka to leave, and how does Raka feel about the suggestion?

9. When they reach Monkey Point, Nanda tells Raka to go up alone. How has Nanda’s mood changed once Raka returned from scaling Monkey Point?

10. What does Nanda consider doing at the end of Part II, Chapter 14, but decide against because it would require meeting with someone?

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