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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Heart of Darkness?
(a) The river.
(b) Rahel's childhood home.
(c) The History House.
(d) Ayemenem.

2. What does Chacko have on his fried egg the morning he meets Margaret at the London cafe?
(a) Cream.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Pickles.
(d) Strawberry jam.

3. What is clutched in Sophie Mol's hand as she drowns?
(a) The gift from Velutha.
(b) A silver thimble.
(c) A child's plastic watch.
(d) Her mother's picture.

4. Whose fault does Estha think it is that he has to be sent away?
(a) Velutha's.
(b) His.
(c) Ammu's.
(d) Chacko's.

5. When Margaret is a waitress at a London cafe, what does she watch Chacko put into his coffee?
(a) Two heaped spoons of sugar.
(b) Strawberry jam.
(c) Half a pitcher of cream.
(d) A raw egg.

6. Ammu worries about ____________, which is supposed to run in the family.
(a) Cancer.
(b) Asthma.
(c) Madness.
(d) Heart disease.

7. What is Velutha doing the night that Sophie Mol drowns?
(a) Making love to Ammu.
(b) Working in the pickle factory.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Talking to Comrade Pillai.

8. What does Rahel take to the temple elephant, Kochu Thomban?
(a) Coconut.
(b) Apple.
(c) Money.
(d) Jar of pickles.

9. What is in Sophie Mol's bag the night the children take the boat out on the river?
(a) Food.
(b) A flashlight.
(c) An Eagle flask.
(d) Books.

10. How many steps lead from Velutha's hut down to the river?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Twenty.

11. What poet does Comrade Pillai's niece recite to Chacko?
(a) Emily Dickenson.
(b) E.B. White.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) William Shakespeare.

12. The author describes Velutha as being as lonely as a ________________.
(a) Lion.
(b) Spider.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Bat.

13. What does Rahel think the temple of Kochu Thomban smells like?
(a) Rain.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Rot.
(d) Death.

14. When she speaks to them at the police station, what does Baby Kochamma tell the twins they have to do to save Ammu?
(a) Runaway.
(b) Hide.
(c) Lie.
(d) Rub her feet.

15. Who is pleased to know that Rahel still enjoys the kathakali?
(a) Kochu Maria.
(b) Estha.
(c) Baby Kochamma.
(d) Comrade Pillia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rahel decide is being beaten on the veranda of the History House instead of Velutha?

2. Ammu tells that twins that they should not wake dreaming people or else they will have what?

3. What is sinking into the ground next to the Ayemenem house as the monsoon rains fell?

4. When Baby Kochamma talks to Rahel and Estha at the police station, she tells the twins they are ______________.

5. What is the only thing Velutha is wearing as he is being beaten on the veranda of the History House?

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