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

2. What year is it at the beginning of Chapter 4, Abhilash Talkies?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1969.

3. Where does Ammu tell the children she should have taken them the night they ran away with Sophie Mol?
(a) America.
(b) Jail.
(c) Disney Land.
(d) An orphanage.

4. What is in Sophie Mol's bag the night the children take the boat out on the river?
(a) Food.
(b) A flashlight.
(c) Books.
(d) An Eagle flask.

5. What poet does Comrade Pillai try to get his son Lenin to recite to Chacko?
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) E.B. White.
(c) Emily Dickenson.
(d) Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rahel remember the children dressed up in to play with Velutha?

2. What does Rahel call the man who shows them to the theater door when they go to the movies?

3. What is the Abhilash Talkies' lobby called?

4. As Rahel gets reacquainted with her childhood home, she sees that the History House is now what?

5. As Rahel watches a silent Estha strip off his clothes, how does she describe them both?

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