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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 becomes Kochu Maria's favorite television show?

2. Ammu says her phlegm is like what?

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

4. Where does Ammu take Rahel and Estha after the funeral of Sophie Mol?

5. What does Estha notice the most on the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Ammu think about after she locks herself in the bathroom one afternoon?

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

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

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

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

9. Describe how the twins and Sophie play with Velutha.

10. What does Ammu dream about the afternoon her children find her sleeping in her room?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the Small Things? How are they in contrast to Big Things? Why is Velutha the God of Small Things?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the theme that everything in life has its cost is shown throughout the novel.

Essay Topic 3

What is the symbolism of the river in the novel?

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