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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20, The Madras Mail.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rahel call the man who shows them to the theater door when they go to the movies?
(a) The Light Man.
(b) The Torch Man.
(c) The Big Man.
(d) The Mean Man.

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

3. What does Baby Kochamma eat while she watches television?
(a) Figs.
(b) Peanuts.
(c) Chocolates.
(d) Grapes.

4. What does Ammu tell Estha and Rahel she will do to them if they ever embarrass her in public again like they did at the airport?
(a) Send them away.
(b) Lock them in a closet.
(c) Starve them.
(d) Beat them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are Rahel and Estha when they are reunited as adults?

2. Who does Rahel meet as she is walking along the river remembering her childhood?

3. What year is it at the beginning of Chapter 4, Abhilash Talkies?

4. The kathakali performs dances about what?

5. What part of Estha does Rahel reach out and touch even though he has not even acknowledged her being in the house?

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