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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 does Ammu tell Estha and Rahel she will do to them if they ever embarrass her in public again like they did at the airport?

2. What does Rahel study at college?

3. What are the hair clasps Rahel wears called?

4. Velutha is ____________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Baby Kochamma get the twins to accuse Velutha of kidnapping them?

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

3. Why did Rahel and Estha not see each other for twenty-three years?

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

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

6. What do the children notice in particular at the airport as they wait for Sophie Mol to arrive?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What pivotal role does Baby Kochamma play in destroying four lives in order to save the family name?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of Margaret and Sophie in the novel and what they represent.

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