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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the end of Part II, Chapter 13, Raka and Ram Lal try to shoo away a band of what, which had descended on the apricot trees and hydrangeas?
(a) Owls.
(b) Crickets.
(c) Hens.
(d) Langurs.

3. Where do Ram Lal and Raka talk to one another in the evening?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) By the Hamam.
(c) In the guest room.
(d) In the drawing room.

4. In Part II, Chapter 12, Nanda tells Raka that houses may burn and maybe even what?
(a) Whole villages.
(b) Carignano.
(c) The Pasteur Institute.
(d) Monkey Point.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who refers to Raka as “the crazy one from Carignano” (91), at the end of Part II, Chapter 18?

2. As the fire burns, Raka goes to the window at night to see if it is any closer to where?

3. What sound at the end of Part II, Chapter 11 sends Raka running home rather than to the ravine where she was headed?

4. After their walk to Monkey Point, Nanda stopped offering to walk with her and instead would do what during tea?

5. What does Raka sneak out to see at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Who calls Nanda in Part II, Chapter 21 and what does this person want?

3. What does Ram Lal tell Raka about churails in Part II, Chapter 13?

4. What does Nanda observe about Raka and Ram Lal’s relationship at the start of Part II, Chapter 13?

5. What does Nanda ask Raka if she would like to take to Monkey Point, and how does Raka respond?

6. 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?

7. Who does Nanda tell Raka are destroying her quiet little place?

8. What does Nanda say happened the morning after she and her family camped out by a river in Part II, Chapter 15?

9. What fantastical stories does Nanda tell her about the things her father kept at their home in Kashmir?

10. How does Raka feel about Carignano as described in Part II, Chapter 18?

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