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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Nanda and Raka feel watching the storm in Part II, Chapter 15?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Happy.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Restless.

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

3. What does Raka sneak out to see at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 10?
(a) The jackals.
(b) The burnt cottage.
(c) A big party at the club.
(d) Monkey Point.

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

5. How does Raka react to the information about her mother at the end of Part II, Chapter 17?
(a) Sad.
(b) Scared.
(c) With indifference.
(d) Happy.

6. What do Nanda and Raka laugh together at when they are walking Chapter 7?
(a) Jackals.
(b) Langur monkeys.
(c) Hens.
(d) Bul-buls.

7. What does Nanda ask Raka if she would like to take to Monkey point in Part II, Chapter 12?
(a) A boat.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A pony ride.
(d) A train.

8. After their walk to Monkey Point, Nanda stopped offering to walk with her and instead would do what during tea?
(a) Listen to music.
(b) Tell stories.
(c) Read.
(d) Watch T.V.

9. Who notices a change in Raka at the start of Part II, Chapter 12, after Raka witnesses the costume party?
(a) Ram Lal.
(b) Nanda.
(c) Tara.
(d) Nobody.

10. In Part II, Chapter 16, whose things does Nanda tell Raka her home was filled with?
(a) Raka’s.
(b) Her parent’s, husbands, and his family’s.
(c) Nanda’s.
(d) Asha’s.

11. What does Nanda tell Raka her father had at their home in Part II, Chapter 19?
(a) A soccer field.
(b) A private jet.
(c) A movie theater.
(d) A private zoo.

12. Where does the letter Nanda receives from Asha in Part II, Chapter 14 say Tara is?
(a) A nursing home in Geneva.
(b) A nursing home in Kashmir.
(c) A hospital in Greece.
(d) An apartment in Punjab.

13. At the end of Part II, Chapter 20, Raka, bored of Nanda’s conversation, hopes that who will come rescue her?
(a) Ram Lal.
(b) Her father.
(c) Asha.
(d) Tara.

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

15. Who does Nanda tell Raka bought the bronze Buddha in her drawing room?
(a) Nanda’s brother.
(b) Nanda’s uncle.
(c) Nanda’s father.
(d) Nanda’s grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ram Lal tell Raka churails live off of?

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

3. Rama Lal tells Raka that a woman turned into what after looking at a churails feet?

4. Who calls Nanda at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 21?

5. At the end of Part II, Chapter 21, what does Nanda decide she will not leave to Raka after she dies?

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