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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Rahel ask Ammu about and ruin the mood of a pleasant afternoon?
(a) Pappachi.
(b) Sophie.
(c) Velutha.
(d) Baba.

2. What does Rahel do as the train Estha rides pulls out of the station?
(a) Screams.
(b) Vomits.
(c) Laughs.
(d) Cries.

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

4. Who joins Rahel at the temple to watch the kathakali?
(a) Baby Kochamma.
(b) Estha.
(c) Comrade Pillai.
(d) Kochu Maria.

5. What kind of coupons is Baby Kochamma filling out as she sits in bed listening for Rahel and Estha?
(a) Listerine.
(b) Palmolive.
(c) Crest.
(d) Dove.

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

7. When does Ammu tell Estha she will see him again as he sits on the train?
(a) Month after next.
(b) In June.
(c) As soon as she gets a job.
(d) As soon as he finishes school.

8. What is sinking into the ground next to the Ayemenem house as the monsoon rains fell?
(a) Pickle jars.
(b) The old Plymouth.
(c) The plastic child's watch.
(d) The pickle factory.

9. Who is the only relative to attend Chacko's and Margaret's wedding?
(a) Margaret's mother.
(b) Ammu.
(c) Mammachi.
(d) Sophie.

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

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

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

13. What does Chacko go to Comrade Pillai's house to discuss?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Factory business.
(c) Velutha.
(d) Politics.

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

15. Where does Velutha sleep the night that Sophie Mol drowns?
(a) Comrade Pillai's house.
(b) By the riverside.
(c) In his hut.
(d) The History House.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the children's boat to overturn the night that Sophie Mol drowns?

2. What do the twins think Velutha's blood smells like as it comes to them on a breeze on the veranda of the History House?

3. Where do Rahel and Estha go after they search for Sophie by the river?

4. Comrade Pillia holds his ____________ like a gun to Chacko's head.

5. When she speaks to them at the police station, what does Baby Kochamma tell the twins they have to do to save Ammu?

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