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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chacko love most about Margaret?

2. The kathakali performance Rahel watches is about what story?

3. Ammu tells that twins that they should not wake dreaming people or else they will have what?

4. What is in Sophie Mol's bag the night the children take the boat out on the river?

5. When Margaret is a waitress at a London cafe, what does she watch Chacko put into his coffee?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does The God of Small Things show how social, cultural, idealistic, and religious discrimination and racism run strong in all sects of the Indian society?

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

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

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