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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 is clutched in Sophie Mol's hand as she drowns?
(a) Her mother's picture.
(b) The gift from Velutha.
(c) A child's plastic watch.
(d) A silver thimble.

2. What subject does Baby Kochamma bring up at the airport to try to impress Sophie Mol?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Picasso.

3. The kathakali performs dances about what?
(a) The Great Stories.
(b) The History of the World.
(c) The End of Days.
(d) The Heart of Darkness.

4. Rahel never writes letters to Estha when they are apart because she says you can't write letters to ____________.
(a) A dead person.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A memory.
(d) A part of yourself.

5. Rahel remembers the family seeing a(n) _____________ on the way to the movies before they picked up Sophie Mol at the airport.
(a) Hindu parade.
(b) Independece demonstration.
(c) Communist march.
(d) Brittish military march.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of coupons is Baby Kochamma filling out as she sits in bed listening for Rahel and Estha?

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

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

4. What does Rahel wear to the airport to pick up Margaret and Sophie Mol?

5. What does Velutha give each of the children the day that Sophie dies?

(see the answer key)

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