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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Rahel go when she turns eleven?
(a) Boarding school.
(b) To live with an uncle in Calcutta.
(c) England.
(d) America.

2. How does Mammachi feel about Margaret Kochamma?
(a) Despises her.
(b) Pities her.
(c) Fears her.
(d) Loves her.

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

4. What does Estha talk to the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man about?
(a) The pickle factory.
(b) Fishing in Ayemenem.
(c) His mother and sister.
(d) The Sound of Music.

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

6. After Ammu is banished from the house, what illness does she have when she comes back to visit Rahel?
(a) Asthma.
(b) The flu.
(c) Leprosy.
(d) Cancer.

7. What color is Sophie Mol's hair?
(a) Dark red.
(b) Deep red-brown.
(c) Jet black.
(d) Light blond.

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

9. What does Margaret Kochamma say over and over again?
(a) Oh dear.
(b) Jolly well.
(c) Bloody well.
(d) Righto.

10. What is the name of the hotel where Rahel's family stays before going to the airport?
(a) Hotel Sea Queen.
(b) The Circle Princess.
(c) Cochin Inn.
(d) The Warm Moth.

11. What is the Abhilash Talkies' lobby called?
(a) Princess Circle.
(b) Torchlight.
(c) Snack Bar.
(d) Big Man.

12. As Rahel contemplates what to do with the rest of her life, she wishes she and Estha could go live in Baby Kochamma's _______________.
(a) Closet.
(b) Car.
(c) Backyard.
(d) Satellite dish.

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

14. Where is Estha's favorite thinking place as a child?
(a) His closet.
(b) The pickle kitchen.
(c) The riverside.
(d) Ammu's room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When they are children, what does Rahel steal from Baby Kochamma after Estha leaves?

2. Where does Rahel go to live after her marriage?

3. What event does Estha write about in his Wisdom Exercise Notebook?

4. Where is Estha while Rahel waits to see him for the first time as an adult?

5. Which character in The Sound of Music does Rahel identify with most?

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