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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the child, who has the same ailment she does, that Rahel remembers seeing on a trip to the doctor?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Kentu.
(c) Pallai.
(d) Lenin.

2. What do the children following Rahel call her as she walks the riverside remembering her childhood?
(a) Murderer.
(b) Mol.
(c) Hippie.
(d) Stranger.

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

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

5. What does Velutha notice about Ammu as she watches him play with Rahel on the day Sophie Mol arrives?
(a) Her ringless hand.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her dimples.
(d) Her laugh.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rahel go when she turns eleven?

2. What is Baby Kochamma watching on television as Rahel waits for Estha to return home?

3. What does Velutha make the twins promise about the boat they find?

4. What does Rahel realize as an adult about the way Velutha plays with the children?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chacko end up marrying an Englishwoman?

2. What do the children notice in particular at the airport as they wait for Sophie Mol to arrive?

3. How does Rahel view her brother when she sees him for the first time in twenty-three years?

4. What does Rahel notice has become of the river that played such an important role in her childhood?

5. Who is Velutha?

6. What does Velutha do after he is fired from the pickle factory?

7. What year is the author remembering at the beginning of Chapter 4, Abhilash Talkies?

8. When does Ammu realize there is a special bond between Velutha and her children?

9. What do the twins realize about Ammu years later?

10. What do the twins do when they find a boat by the river?

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