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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Velutha doing the night that Sophie Mol drowns?

2. What is Sophie Mol wearing the night she drowns?

3. When she speaks to them at the police station, what does Baby Kochamma tell the twins they have to do to save Ammu?

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

5. What are the names of the two sons in the joke Chacko tells Margaret the morning he meets her at the cafe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Why do the twins consider how much they are loved, whom they love, and who loves them? What are the roots of this deep-seeded need and how is it shown throughout the novel?

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