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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tara’s daughter recovering from, according to the letter in Chapter 4?

2. In Chapter 5, Nanda thinks of her life at the Vice Chancellor’s house in what state?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nanda feel at the end of Part I about the possibility of Ila Das visiting Carignano?

2. Where does Raka find herself instead of at the Carignano garden when she is on one of her adventures in Part II, Chapter 5?

3. In Chapter 2, what does the year 1947 signify in regards to Carignano?

4. What does Ram Lal tell Raka about the snake she tells him she saw in Part II, Chapter 6?

5. What does the name Raka mean, and how does Nanda feel about that at the start of Part II?

6. How do Raka and Nanda behave toward one another when Raka first arrives as described in Part II, Chapter 4?

7. When Nanda receives the letter, how does she think she will respond regardless of the request?

8. The end of Part I, Chapter 7 tells of the Vice Chancellor dropping off a guest at her home. What does this description hint at to the reader?

9. Why does Nanda send Ram Lal to the taxi stand to meet Raka when she first arrives rather than going herself?

10. What does Ram Lal tell Raka about the Pasteur Institute and why she should not go there at night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the women who lived at Carignano before Nanda. What do the various people who inhabited Carignano before Nanda tell the reader about the history of the area?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze Nanda’s relationship with Ila Das.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze why Nanda’s home with her husband, the Vice Chancellor is always referred to as “The Vice Chancellor’s House” and not as Nanda’s home in Fire on the Mountain. Use direct examples from the text.

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