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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. When they are children, what does Rahel steal from Baby Kochamma after Estha leaves?
(a) Her diary.
(b) Money.
(c) Her rosary.
(d) Cigarettes.

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

3. What does Rahel wear to the airport to pick up Margaret and Sophie Mol?
(a) A yellow sari.
(b) A lacy dress.
(c) Bell-bottoms and a hat.
(d) Polka-dotted pants.

4. What hangs on the wall at the entrance of the Kochamma house?
(a) Stuffed Elephant head.
(b) Stuffed marlin.
(c) Stuffed antelope head.
(d) Stuffed bison head.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the boarding school that expells Rahel?

2. What is Estha wearing the day they go to The Sound of Music?

3. What does Rahel remember that Sophie Mol was wearing the day she arrived for a visit?

4. What creature does Rahel see at Sophie Mol's funeral?

5. Rahel remembers the family seeing a(n) _____________ on the way to the movies before they picked up Sophie Mol at the airport.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the family learn of Ammu's affair with Velutha and how do they react?

2. Where did the saying "Big Man the Laltain, Small Man the Bombatti" come from?

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

4. What happens when the police find Velutha and the twins at the History House?

5. What happens when Sophie Mol and Margaret arrive at the airport?

6. Why did Rahel and Estha not see each other for twenty-three years?

7. How does Chacko end up marrying an Englishwoman?

8. What does Ammu think about after she locks herself in the bathroom one afternoon?

9. Why do the children plan to use the boat by the riverside?

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

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