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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Rahel hide while Sophie and Margaret are being introduced to the family?
(a) Beside a cement kangaroo.
(b) Wrapped in the airport curtains.
(c) Inside a stall in the bathroom.
(d) Behind her mother's sari.

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

3. What is the name of the boarding school that expells Rahel?
(a) Delhi School for Girls.
(b) Cochin Girls School.
(c) Nazareth Convent.
(d) Cochin Convent.

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

5. As Rahel gets reacquainted with her childhood home, she sees that the History House is now what?
(a) A hotel.
(b) Occupied by a family.
(c) Dilapadated.
(d) An empty field.

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

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

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

9. Ammu says her phlegm is like what?
(a) Poison.
(b) Fruit.
(c) A baby.
(d) Evil.

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

11. Who does Rahel now see as an adult was the one victim of that tragic day in her childhood?
(a) Velutha.
(b) Sophie.
(c) Estha.
(d) Ammu.

12. Where did Rahel's father move to?
(a) England.
(b) Australia.
(c) America.
(d) Canada.

13. What about Velutha reminds Ammu of him as a child?
(a) His smile.
(b) His walk.
(c) His laugh.
(d) His hands.

14. What becomes Kochu Maria's favorite television show?
(a) The Price is Right.
(b) Days of our Lives.
(c) Hulk Hogan.
(d) Leave it to Beaver.

15. Rahel remembers the family seeing a(n) _____________ on the way to the movies before they picked up Sophie Mol at the airport.
(a) Communist march.
(b) Independece demonstration.
(c) Hindu parade.
(d) Brittish military march.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language do Rahel and Estha speak to each other as children?

2. What do Estha and Rahel hold in their laps on the way to the airport?

3. What do Estha and Rahel put in front of Velutha's hut the day they find the boat?

4. Who is Kochu Maria?

5. What does Laltain mean?

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