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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, A Few Hours Later.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rahel wear to the airport to pick up Margaret and Sophie Mol?
(a) A lacy dress.
(b) A yellow sari.
(c) Bell-bottoms and a hat.
(d) Polka-dotted pants.

2. What subject does Baby Kochamma bring up at the airport to try to impress Sophie Mol?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Shakespeare.

3. Where does Rahel hide while Sophie and Margaret are being introduced to the family?
(a) Wrapped in the airport curtains.
(b) Behind her mother's sari.
(c) Beside a cement kangaroo.
(d) Inside a stall in the bathroom.

4. What do Estha and Rahel hold in their laps on the way to the airport?
(a) Elegantly wrapped gifts.
(b) Books.
(c) Eagle vacuum flasks.
(d) Flowers.

5. What is clutched in Sophie Mol's hand as she drowns?
(a) The gift from Velutha.
(b) A silver thimble.
(c) A child's plastic watch.
(d) Her mother's picture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ammu see in a powerful dream?

2. What causes the children's boat to overturn the night that Sophie Mol drowns?

3. What color is Sophie Mol's hair?

4. Where does Ammu tell the children she should have taken them the night they ran away with Sophie Mol?

5. Baby Kochamma tells Rahel and Estha as they wait for the plane to arrive that they are what?

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