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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. Ammu meets the twins' father when she is visiting a cousin in what city?
(a) Calcutta.
(b) Boston.
(c) Delhi.
(d) London.

2. What country is India at war with when Rahel and Estha are born?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Tibet.
(c) China.
(d) Iran.

3. What does Laltain mean?
(a) Lover.
(b) Loveless.
(c) Little.
(d) Lantern.

4. What does Ammu tell Estha and Rahel she will do to them if they ever embarrass her in public again like they did at the airport?
(a) Send them away.
(b) Lock them in a closet.
(c) Beat them.
(d) Starve them.

5. Who does Rahel now see as an adult was the one victim of that tragic day in her childhood?
(a) Ammu.
(b) Sophie.
(c) Estha.
(d) Velutha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children do with Velutha while they play on the day Sophie dies?

2. After Ammu dies, what does Chacko have done with the body?

3. Estha leaves the theater for a second time to go to the lobby because he feels ____________.

4. What is in Sophie Mol's bag the night the children take the boat out on the river?

5. When they are children, what does Rahel steal from Baby Kochamma after Estha leaves?

(see the answer key)

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