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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 does Rahel stick up her nose and have to go see a doctor to have removed when she is a child?
(a) Penny.
(b) Glass bead.
(c) Pickle.
(d) Green gram.

2. Velutha is ____________.
(a) A priest.
(b) A scholar.
(c) A doctor.
(d) An Untouchable.

3. What is the name of the original owner of the History House estate?
(a) Comrade Pillai.
(b) Kari Saipu.
(c) P. Levin.
(d) Bhima Dushasana.

4. What is Estha wearing the day they go to The Sound of Music?
(a) Silk shirt and gold chains.
(b) Leather jacket.
(c) Blue suede shoes.
(d) Beige and pointy shoes.

5. What language do Rahel and Estha speak to each other as children?
(a) Hindi.
(b) Arabic.
(c) Morovian.
(d) Malayalam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baby Kochamma eat while she watches television?

2. What about Velutha reminds Ammu of him as a child?

3. What becomes Kochu Maria's favorite television show?

4. What do people in Ayemenem steal from Baby Kochamma?

5. What do the children do with Velutha while they play on the day Sophie dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the other factory workers dislike Velutha according to Pillai?

2. What little game do Rahel, Estha and Sophie Mol play as they get to know each other?

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

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

5. What is the photograph of that Comrade Pillai shows to Rahel?

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

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

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

9. What happened to the pickle factory in the years after the tragedy?

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

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