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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 - Part III: Chapters 1 -13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Part III, Chapter 4, Raka is bored at what “game” between Ila and Nanda?
(a) History.
(b) Charades.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Old age.

2. What game did people from campus come to the Vice Chancellors to play?
(a) Parcheesi.
(b) Badminton.
(c) Uno.
(d) Baseball.

3. What does Nanda tell Raka is “everywhere” (57) in Part II, Chapter 7?
(a) Sadness.
(b) The army.
(c) Peace.
(d) Insects.

4. Which former resident of Carignano “poked a fork into her cook’s neck when he was choking on a mutton bone in the belief it would make an aperture for him to breathe through” (9)?
(a) Miss Appleby.
(b) Mary Jo.
(c) Mavis.
(d) Miss Shrewsbury.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What lake near her childhood home does Nanda tell Raka about at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 19?

2. After declining to meet Ila Das for lunch, where does Nanda offer to meet her for tea the next day?

3. What does Nanda tell Raka was needed in order to travel to Tibet back when her father went there when she was young?

4. What is the name of the club Raka ends up at instead of Carignano garden at the end of Part II, Chapter 5?

5. What happened to the woman whose cottage burned down, according to the story Ram Lal tells in Part II, Chapter 6?

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