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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, The History House.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Rahel when her banished mother comes to visit her in Ayemenem?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Thirty-one.
(c) Seven.
(d) Twenty-three.

2. What does Rahel stick up her nose and have to go see a doctor to have removed when she is a child?
(a) Penny.
(b) Pickle.
(c) Green gram.
(d) Glass bead.

3. Ammu tells that twins that they should not wake dreaming people or else they will have what?
(a) Ruined the Future.
(b) Nightmares.
(c) A Heart Attack.
(d) Freed the Good Spirits.

4. What are the names of the two sons in the joke Chacko tells Margaret the morning he meets her at the cafe?
(a) Karna and Kuntu.
(b) John and Frank.
(c) Pete and Stuart.
(d) Bhima and Dauseva.

5. What is Estha thinking about as he silently watches Rahel go through their childhood notebooks?
(a) Trains.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Rahel contemplates what to do with the rest of her life, she wishes she and Estha could go live in Baby Kochamma's _______________.

2. Where does Chacko, Rahel's uncle, study?

3. What does Rahel realize as an adult about the way Velutha plays with the children?

4. Where does Rahel start sleeping at night after she returns to the Ayemenem house as an adult?

5. What does Rahel think the temple of Kochu Thomban smells like?

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