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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. 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.

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

3. What does Ram Lal tell Raka churails live off of?
(a) Flesh of the dead.
(b) Little girls.
(c) Serum.
(d) Insects.

4. As the fire burns, Raka goes to the window at night to see if it is any closer to where?
(a) Monkey Point.
(b) The Kasauli Club.
(c) The Pasteur Institute.
(d) Carignano.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sound at the end of Part II, Chapter 11 sends Raka running home rather than to the ravine where she was headed?

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

4. The scene Raka sees in Part II, Chapter 10 is more of what, than the fancy ball she expected?

5. In Part II, Chapter 15, Nanda tells Raka of her time where, which she says was like a paradise to her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. At the start of Part II, Chapter 14 a letter arrives at Carignano. Who is it from and what does it say?

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

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

6. What does Nanda say happened the morning after she and her family camped out by a river in Part II, Chapter 15?

7. Where does Nanda tell Raka her Buddha statue came from?

8. How does Raka react when Nanda tells her that the letter she received from Asha said that her mother is ill?

9. 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?

10. How does Raka recall the parties that her father had her go to as a child?

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