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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Cochin Harbor Terminus.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Rahel and Estha go after they search for Sophie by the river?
(a) The History House.
(b) Velutha's hut.
(c) The pickle factory.
(d) Home.

2. What does Mombatti mean?
(a) Tall man.
(b) Mellow.
(c) Tallow-stick.
(d) Memory.

3. Where does Ammu take Rahel and Estha after the funeral of Sophie Mol?
(a) Calcutta.
(b) Home.
(c) The church.
(d) The police station.

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

5. Where does Rahel tell Velutha she saw him in Cochin the day before Sophie Mol arrived?
(a) Movie theater.
(b) The park.
(c) Communist march.
(d) The airport.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Rahel when her banished mother comes to visit her in Ayemenem?

2. Estha goes out to the lobby by himself while the family is at the movie theaters watching The Sound of Music because he is ___________.

3. What does the father in the joke Chacko tells Margaret the morning he meets her at the cafe give to one of his son's as a birthday present?

4. What does Rahel think of as The Sound of Music "smell"?

5. What is buried under the grounds of the History House?

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