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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. As Rahel contemplates what to do with the rest of her life, she wishes she and Estha could go live in Baby Kochamma's _______________.
(a) Satellite dish.
(b) Backyard.
(c) Closet.
(d) Car.

2. What does Chacko go to Comrade Pillai's house to discuss?
(a) Factory business.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Velutha.
(d) Politics.

3. What does Rahel remember that Sophie Mol was wearing the day she arrived for a visit?
(a) Silk dress.
(b) A plastic watch.
(c) Diamond earrings.
(d) Bell-bottoms.

4. Estha goes out to the lobby by himself while the family is at the movie theaters watching The Sound of Music because he is ___________.
(a) Vomiting.
(b) Talking loudly.
(c) Coughing.
(d) Singing loudly.

5. In her dream, which of the following animals does Ammu NOT see?
(a) Sacred elephants.
(b) Moths.
(c) Fish.
(d) Red cow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the hair clasps Rahel wears called?

2. What does Baby Kochamma eat while she watches television?

3. Whose advances and little seductions does Sophie Mol reject?

4. Sophie Mol vows to drink only out of what while she was in Ayemenem?

5. What causes the children's boat to overturn the night that Sophie Mol drowns?

(see the answer key)

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