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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the toys the children brought to the History House?
(a) Velutha takes them.
(b) The police take them.
(c) The twins throw them in the river.
(d) Ammu takes them.

2. What is Sophie Mol wearing the night she drowns?
(a) Yellow bell-bottoms.
(b) A red Mickey Mouse sweatshirt.
(c) A mauve corduroy pinafore.
(d) A purple sari.

3. When Baby Kochamma talks to Rahel and Estha at the police station, she tells the twins they are ______________.
(a) Murderers.
(b) Angels.
(c) Liars.
(d) Sweeties.

4. What are the names of the two sons in the joke Chacko tells Margaret the morning he meets her at the cafe?
(a) Karna and Kuntu.
(b) Pete and Stuart.
(c) John and Frank.
(d) Bhima and Dauseva.

5. Ammu tells that twins that they should not wake dreaming people or else they will have what?
(a) Freed the Good Spirits.
(b) Nightmares.
(c) Ruined the Future.
(d) A Heart Attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Comrade Pillai's wife?

2. What is clutched in Sophie Mol's hand as she drowns?

3. What is the only thing Velutha is wearing as he is being beaten on the veranda of the History House?

4. Why does Inspector Thomas send for Baby Kochamma after he talks to the twins?

5. What do the twins think Velutha's blood smells like as it comes to them on a breeze on the veranda of the History House?

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