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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The letter Nanda receives from Asha tells news of whom?
2. After seeing a headless man with a shawl dripping with blood, Raka runs off doing what?
3. In Part II, Chapter 20, Nanda suggests that Raka stay with her to hear what birds?
4. In Part II, Chapter 13, Ram Lal tells Raka that he has seen her going to the ravine in the moonlight, which he says is unsafe because she can be seen by what?
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. How does Raka react when Nanda tells her that the letter she received from Asha said that her mother is ill?
3. What does Nanda observe about Raka and Ram Lal’s relationship at the start of Part II, Chapter 13?
4. 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?
5. At the start of Part II, Chapter 14 a letter arrives at Carignano. Who is it from and what does it say?
6. 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?
7. Even though Nanda prefers solitude, what does she continue to suggest to Raka as described in Part II, Chapter 9?
8. What do Raka and Nanda laugh at together on their walk to Monkey Point?
9. What fantastical stories does Nanda tell her about the things her father kept at their home in Kashmir?
10. What does Nanda say happened the morning after she and her family camped out by a river in Part II, Chapter 15?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze Raka’s fascination with forest fires throughout the novel. What scenes show this interest and what does it tell the reader about Raka?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing Nanda’s relationship like with her daughter Asha. Use direct examples from the text to support your viewpoint.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay comparing Nanda’s life at the Vice Chancellor’s to her life in Carignano.
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