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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. How old is Rahel when her banished mother comes to visit her in Ayemenem?
(a) Thirty-one.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Seven.
(d) Twenty-three.

2. What does Rahel wear to the airport to pick up Margaret and Sophie Mol?
(a) Bell-bottoms and a hat.
(b) Polka-dotted pants.
(c) A yellow sari.
(d) A lacy dress.

3. What do Rahel and Estha grow up seeing themselves as after the day Sophie Mol dies?
(a) Friends.
(b) Victims.
(c) Perpetrators.
(d) Losers.

4. What does Velutha make the twins promise about the boat they find?
(a) Only use it with an adult.
(b) Only use it with him.
(c) Only use it during the day.
(d) Never put it in the water.

5. Whose advances and little seductions does Sophie Mol reject?
(a) Ammu.
(b) Baby Kochamma.
(c) Estha.
(d) Chacko.

Short Answer Questions

1. Estha leaves the theater for a second time to go to the lobby because he feels ____________.

2. What does Sohpie Mol tell Chacko about being her father?

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

4. When Margaret is a waitress at a London cafe, what does she watch Chacko put into his coffee?

5. In her dream, which of the following animals does Ammu NOT see?

(see the answer key)

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