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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color aprons do the workers at the pickle factory wear?

2. Where is Estha's favorite thinking place as a child?

3. How many years are Rahel and Estha apart?

4. Pappachi is an Imperial ____________________.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe what happens to Ammu, Rahel's mother, when she leaves Ayemenem as a young woman.

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

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

7. Describe what happens when Rahel sees Estha for the first time after twenty-three years.

8. What year is the author remembering at the beginning of Chapter 4, Abhilash Talkies?

9. Why does Baby Kochamma force Ammu to leave the house?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The twins take years to realize the part that Ammu has played in the whole tragedy. What was Ammu's role in the tragedy of the twins, Sophie Mol, and Velutha?

Essay Topic 2

What role do moths play in the novel, both in a literal sense and as imagery?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following statement: "...it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much." What were the Love Laws and which ones were broken in the novel?

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