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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. How does Rune die?

2. What do Celeste Arnold and Digby drink when she comes to tell him goodbye?

3. In Chapter 5, how often does Ammachi get money from the strongbox?

4. What fort was built in Madras in the 1600s?

5. How many does after the fires does Digby takes off his bandages and examine his wounds?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rune do after attending an ashram?

2. Why did Digby decide to go to India?

3. Why does Elsie come to spend time with Digby after Rune performs surgeries on his hands?

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

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

6. How does Philipose begin reading Moby Dick?

7. How does Jeb die?

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

9. What does Philipose do when there is a famine?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood The Covenant of Water, what color would it be? Why? Would you choose different colors to describe the mood in different sections?

Essay Topic 2

Rune begins to feel a sense of discontent in 1922. One evening he sees a leper and he has a realization that causes him to leave his practice. How does that incident help Rune find his life’s mission?

Essay Topic 3

Philipose became an opium addict. How and why did Philipose become an opium addict, and how did he eventually beat his addiction?

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