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

2. Where does Nanda tell Raka her bronze Buddha was purchased?
(a) Punjab.
(b) Tibet.
(c) Kashmir.
(d) Geneva.

3. 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.

4. In Part II, Chapter 15, Nanda tells Raka of her time where, which she says was like a paradise to her?
(a) Carignano.
(b) The Vice Chancellor’s.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Kashmir.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raka touch of Nanda’s in the drawing room, where they keep sheltered from the storm?

2. Nanda recites a poem to Raka by which poet in Part II, Chapter 7?

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

4. What does Ram Lal place on the breakfast table in Part II, Chapter 17?

5. How does Raka react to the information about her mother at the end of Part II, Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Raka feel about Carignano as described in Part II, Chapter 18?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Nanda observe about Raka and Ram Lal’s relationship at the start of Part II, Chapter 13?

7. How does Nanda respond when, after suggesting to Raka that she go to the club, Raka tells her grandmother that she does not go to the club?

8. What do Raka and Nanda laugh at together on their walk to Monkey Point?

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 poet does Nanda recite to Raka during their walk to Monkey Point and why?

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