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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 does Owen Tuttleberry call the motorcycle he offers to sell to Digby?

2. Which of the 12 disciples is said to have landed on the spice coast?

3. On the train Philipose takes back to Cochin, how many passengers are there to a cubicle?

4. How many acres is Parambil?

5. In 1933, how does Digby get to work when he is working at a hospital in India?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Muller's Madness, and what plans do Chandy and others have for the property?

2. Why does Philipose decide he wants to marry Elsie, Chandy's daughter?

3. How does Philpose save a baby?

4. What is Mahabalipuram?

5. Why does Ammachi worry about Philipose after he leaves for college in Madras?

6. When does Ammachi's mother come to live at Parambil, and why does she come?

7. How does Big Appachen get sick a few weeks after Philipose is born?

8. Who is the Uplift Master, and how does he improve the area?

9. Why does Philipose hesitate to cut down the tree Elsie wants cut down?

10. Why and how does Digby's mother die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lenin joins the Naxalites. What does Lenin’s hatred of injustice have to do with him joining the Naxalites?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view of The Covenant of Water? How does the way that the third-person narrator follows different characters influence what readers know about events and characters? How does having the narrator follow different characters help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 3

Ammachi is raised as a St. Thomas Christian. However, she also believes in ghosts and superstitious practices. How are religion and superstition intertwined in Ammachi’s life?

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