Fire on the Mountain Quizzes

Fire on the Mountain Quiz 1

1 Whom is Nanda Kaul unhappy to see at the beginning?
Raka

Ila Das

The postman

Ram Lal
2 Nanda Kaul's life can best be described as
solitary

lively

abstemious

boring
3 Nanda Kaul likes Carignano because of its
flora and fauna

barrenness

weather

wildlife
4 What kind of trees are on the property?
Lemon

Apple

Orange

Apricot
5 All of the following describe someone who lived at Carignano before Nanda Kaul except
an English couple and their children

a woman who concocted things out of what grew in the garden

a social worker in the villages

a wife who tried to kill her husband every day
6 Ram Lal can best be described as
dour

practical

religious

rude
7 What does Nanda Kaul plan to say to the letter she gets?
Stop writing

Thank you

No

Yes
8 Asha is characterized by all the following except
her piety

her desire for stature

her frivolity

her beauty
9 What is wrong with Tara?
She is depressed

She is sick

She is injured

She is pregnant
10 What did Raka have?
Cholera

Typhoid

Measles

Dysentery
11 How does Nanda Kaul feel about her great-granddaughter coming to stay with her?
She is indifferent

She is mildly excited

She is extremely bothered

She is scared
12 Nanda Kaul's husband was a/an
Politician

Lawyer

Vice-Chancellor

Doctor
13 Ila Das's voice is
shrill

deep

monotone

lilting
14 What does Nanda Kaul do for an hour every afternoon?
Reads a novel

Sits in her garden

Lies very still

Weaves
15 What exhausted Nanda Kaul about her former life?
Servants

Children

Guests

[All of these options exhausted her.]
16 When she was running her household, Nanda Kaul only wanted
to be alone

to have someone understand her

to be loved

to be thought beautiful
17 What is the topic of the main entry of the writings of Sei Shonagon that Nanda Kaul is reading?
How to bathe

Types of insects

A woman's house

Types of flowers
18 What was a "habit Nanda Kaul had mislaid"?
Thinking about herself

Care of others

Leaving Carignano

Dreaming
19 What do Nanda Kaul and Ram Lal agree to feed Raka?
Potato chips

Fruit

Chicken

Cake
20 Waiting for Raka, Nanda Kaul
takes a nap

faints

has a coughing fit

bumps her leg
21 What does Nanda Kaul think of her children?
They make her proud

Several of them passed away, which makes her sad

They're all the same

They were too dull
22 Nanda Kaul's worries about Raka include all the following except
having to think about her as an individual

if she will bring her sickness with her and infect Nanda Kaul

not being able to sleep if she is in the house

entertaining her
23 What sort of bird sings a "low, domestic call" as Nanda Kaul waits for Raka?
Swallow

Cuckoo

Eagle

Nightingale
24 Who is the narrator of the novel?
Nanda Kaul

Ila Das

A third-person entity

Raka
25 How long is Raka to stay with Nanda Kaul?
Unknown

1 year

3 months

The summer

Why is chapter 7 in part I important to the plot of the book?

Do you mean in part one, two, or three?

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How does Anita Desai make this such a moving moment in Chapter 5?

I'm sorry, Chapter Five in which section?

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Fire on the mountain

Fire traditionally symbolizes destruction and purification, both of which Raka seeks in setting fire to the mountain. Fire will burn away the traumas and terrors of the patriarchal world in which Raka and Nanda Kaul live, exorcise the demons of...

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Fire on the Mountain

by Anita Desai

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