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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. What is buried under the grounds of the History House?
(a) Small notebook.
(b) Toy car.
(c) Communist flag.
(d) Child's plastic wristwatch.

2. What is the name of the original owner of the History House estate?
(a) Comrade Pillai.
(b) Bhima Dushasana.
(c) P. Levin.
(d) Kari Saipu.

3. 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.

4. What causes the children's boat to overturn the night that Sophie Mol drowns?
(a) Strong wind.
(b) An alligator.
(c) A big wave.
(d) A log.

5. To save himself from being fired, the twins' father offers for Ammu to do what?
(a) Go to work in the pickle factory.
(b) Become a prostitute.
(c) Move to America.
(d) Become his boss's mistress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rahel realize as an adult about the way Velutha plays with the children?

2. What does Chacko go to Comrade Pillai's house to discuss?

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

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

5. Who corrected all the spelling errors in Estha's Wisdom Exercise Notebook?

(see the answer key)

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