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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the only relative to attend Chacko's and Margaret's wedding?
(a) Margaret's mother.
(b) Mammachi.
(c) Ammu.
(d) Sophie.

2. What are the names of the two sons in the joke Chacko tells Margaret the morning he meets her at the cafe?
(a) Pete and Stuart.
(b) Bhima and Dauseva.
(c) John and Frank.
(d) Karna and Kuntu.

3. What does Rahel think the temple of Kochu Thomban smells like?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Rot.
(c) Rain.
(d) Death.

4. How does Velutha feel as he goes to the sleep the night that Sophie Mol drowns?
(a) Terrified.
(b) Sad.
(c) Angry.
(d) Happy.

5. Who is Baby Kochamma still in love with years later when she is an old woman?
(a) Father Mulligan.
(b) Velutha.
(c) Comrade Pillai.
(d) Lord Vishnu.

6. What does Ammu tell Estha he has to be sure to hold onto during their last conversation?
(a) Her promises.
(b) His father's hand.
(c) Her love.
(d) His train ticket.

7. What is the only thing Velutha is wearing as he is being beaten on the veranda of the History House?
(a) Mundu.
(b) Red nail polish.
(c) Turban.
(d) Shoes.

8. Whose fault does Estha think it is that he has to be sent away?
(a) Ammu's.
(b) Velutha's.
(c) His.
(d) Chacko's.

9. What does Chacko go to Comrade Pillai's house to discuss?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Politics.
(c) Velutha.
(d) Factory business.

10. What happens to the toys the children brought to the History House?
(a) The twins throw them in the river.
(b) Ammu takes them.
(c) The police take them.
(d) Velutha takes them.

11. What color does Estha notice everything on the train is?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

12. Where does Ammu tell the children she should have taken them the night they ran away with Sophie Mol?
(a) An orphanage.
(b) Disney Land.
(c) Jail.
(d) America.

13. Who does Ammu see in a powerful dream?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Sophie Mol's body.
(c) A one-armed man.
(d) Estha and Rahel.

14. Who comes to the veranda of the History House, waking the twins?
(a) Cochin Guard.
(b) Baby Ayemenem.
(c) Kottayam Police.
(d) Ammu.

15. Comrade Pillia holds his ____________ like a gun to Chacko's head.
(a) Ideals.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Money.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the father in the joke Chacko tells Margaret the morning he meets her at the cafe give to one of his son's as a birthday present?

2. What do the twins think Velutha's blood smells like as it comes to them on a breeze on the veranda of the History House?

3. Where does Velutha sleep the night that Sophie Mol drowns?

4. Where do Rahel and Estha go after they search for Sophie by the river?

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

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