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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nanda tell Raka was needed in order to travel to Tibet back when her father went there when she was young?
(a) Tons of money.
(b) Government arrangements and military aid.
(c) A travel visa.
(d) A passport.

2. What does Raka touch of Nanda’s in the drawing room, where they keep sheltered from the storm?
(a) The chair.
(b) A bronze Buddha.
(c) Her books.
(d) The table.

3. At the end of Part II Chapter 7, Nanda asks Raka if she would like to go where in Kasauli?
(a) School.
(b) A party.
(c) The movies.
(d) Shopping.

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

5. What sound at the end of Part II, Chapter 11 sends Raka running home rather than to the ravine where she was headed?
(a) An owl hoot.
(b) A jackal cry.
(c) Ram Lal call.
(d) Nanda call.

6. Who does Raka fall asleep near at the end of Part II, Chapter 12?
(a) Isla Das.
(b) Ram Lal.
(c) Nanda.
(d) The Buddha statue.

7. Who is Ila Das having lunch with when she calls Nanda in Part II, Chapter 21?
(a) Miss Wright.
(b) Raka.
(c) Ram Lal.
(d) Asha.

8. In Part II, Chapter 20, Nanda suggests that Raka stay with her to hear what birds?
(a) Hens.
(b) Hoopoes.
(c) Bul-buls.
(d) Owls.

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

10. What does Raka see at the top of the hill near the small charred cottage?
(a) Ram Lal.
(b) Stones for a house.
(c) A new house.
(d) A jackal.

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

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

13. At the beginning of Part II, Chapter 20, when Raka comes home, what does Nanda tell her she is nothing like?
(a) A mountain.
(b) Nanda.
(c) The moon.
(d) Her mother.

14. What does Raka do while Nanda sits on a bench at the foot of Monkey Point?
(a) She runs away from Nanda.
(b) She tells Nanda of her home life.
(c) She climbs Monkey Point.
(d) She sits with Nanda.

15. At the end of Part II, Chapter 17, Raka asks Nanda about what?
(a) Why she moved to Carignano.
(b) Why she lives with Ram Lal.
(c) The letter that arrived.
(d) When she will go home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the letter Nanda receives from Asha in Part II, Chapter 14 say Tara is?

2. How does Raka feel when Nanda offers to join her in Part II, Chapter 7?

3. Raka begged Ram Lal not to do what to the mother langur in Part II, Chapter 13?

4. Where does Ila Das call Nanda from in Part II, Chapter 21?

5. Nanda recites a poem to Raka by which poet in Part II, Chapter 7?

(see the answer keys)

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