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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 do the children do with Velutha while they play on the day Sophie dies?
(a) Color pictures.
(b) Put make-up on him.
(c) Paint his nails.
(d) Play hide-and-seek.

2. What do Estha and Rahel hold in their laps on the way to the airport?
(a) Books.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Eagle vacuum flasks.
(d) Elegantly wrapped gifts.

3. What color is Sophie Mol's hair?
(a) Dark red.
(b) Light blond.
(c) Jet black.
(d) Deep red-brown.

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

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

2. What does Mammachi do to welcome Sophie and Margaret into her home?

3. After Ammu is banished from the house, which of the following is NOT a gift she gives to Rahel when she visits?

4. How old is Rahel when her banished mother comes to visit her in Ayemenem?

5. What year is it at the beginning of Chapter 4, Abhilash Talkies?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Baby Kochamma?

2. Why does Estha become sick while watching The Sound of Music?

3. What happens when the children start to cross the river in the boat?

4. How long does the affair between Ammu and Velutha last?

5. How does Baby Kochamma get the twins to accuse Velutha of kidnapping them?

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

7. What did Rahel think had laid siege on her childhood home on Ayemenem when she saw it for the first time as an adult?

8. What does Rahel remember about her mother's death?

9. What does Kochu Maria do when she first greets Sophie Mol?

10. What is life like in the Ayemenem house twenty three years after the tragedy?

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