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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) Money.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Her diary.
(d) Her rosary.

2. What is the name of the boarding school that expells Rahel?
(a) Cochin Convent.
(b) Delhi School for Girls.
(c) Cochin Girls School.
(d) Nazareth Convent.

3. As Rahel contemplates what to do with the rest of her life, she wishes she and Estha could go live in Baby Kochamma's _______________.
(a) Backyard.
(b) Car.
(c) Closet.
(d) Satellite dish.

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

5. What year is it at the beginning of Chapter 4, Abhilash Talkies?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1994.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the scars from on Mammachi's head?

2. Who does Rahel meet as she is walking along the river remembering her childhood?

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

4. Who is Baby Kochamma in love with?

5. What does Velutha notice about Ammu as she watches him play with Rahel on the day Sophie Mol arrives?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after Rahel and Estha see the Kathakali?

2. What is the first memory Rahel has after she arrives at her childhood home?

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

4. What does Rahel realize as she sits in the dark garden one night watching Estha in his room through the window?

5. How does the tragic affair between Ammu and Velutha begin?

6. How does the incident with the soft drink vendor affect Estha?

7. What happens after Estha boards the train to go to his father?

8. What happy memory does Rahel come across in Estha's childhood notebook?

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

10. Summarize what happened to Rahel in the years she has been away from Ayemenem?

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