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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rahel think the temple of Kochu Thomban smells like?

2. What does Chacko love most about Margaret?

3. Who joins Rahel at the temple to watch the kathakali?

4. What poet does Comrade Pillai's niece recite to Chacko?

5. What does Rahel do as the train Estha rides pulls out of the station?

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

What does this last statement in the kathakali play illuminate?: "The twins--Nakula and Sahadeva--will go untouched. But Aruna--him I will make no promises about. I will kill him, or he will kill me. One of us will die."

Essay Topic 3

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

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