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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2 - Part I: Chapters 8-10 and Part II: Chapters 1 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the name Raka mean?
(a) Moon.
(b) Flower.
(c) Fire.
(d) Insect.

2. At the end of Part II, Chapter 6, Ram Lal and Raka take shelter inside from a dust storm leaving what still burning outside?
(a) The garden.
(b) The Hamam.
(c) Kasauli.
(d) Dinner.

3. What does Ram Lal tell Raka the factories she sees are called?
(a) Pasteur Institute.
(b) The Carignano Labs.
(c) The Himalaya Institute.
(d) The Kasauli Laboratory.

4. What is the title of the section of the book Nanda is reading at the start of Part I, Chapter 8?
(a) The Opulence of Loneliness.
(b) When a Woman Lives Alone.
(c) How to Decorate a Lonely Home.
(d) Pillow for One.

5. Nanda compares Raka’s round eyes to what?
(a) Two moons.
(b) Goggles.
(c) An insect.
(d) Cookies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which former residents of Carignano planted carnations and a yellow rose creeper, which was still there when Nanda moved in?

2. What does Nanda consider putting in the guest room, but ultimately decides against?

3. 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)?

4. In Chapter 5, Nanda compares her great-grandaughter’s visit as putting what around her neck?

5. In Chapter 7, Nanda recalls her husband coming home after dropping off how many guests after a badminton game?

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