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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rahel start sleeping at night after she returns to the Ayemenem house as an adult?

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

3. Ammu worries about ____________, which is supposed to run in the family.

4. Who comes to the veranda of the History House, waking the twins?

5. What slides into Estha that day at the police station?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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."

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