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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rahel remembers the family seeing a(n) _____________ on the way to the movies before they picked up Sophie Mol at the airport.
(a) Hindu parade.
(b) Independece demonstration.
(c) Communist march.
(d) Brittish military march.

2. What do Rahel and Estha grow up seeing themselves as after the day Sophie Mol dies?
(a) Friends.
(b) Victims.
(c) Perpetrators.
(d) Losers.

3. Where does Rahel tell Velutha she saw him in Cochin the day before Sophie Mol arrived?
(a) Movie theater.
(b) The airport.
(c) Communist march.
(d) The park.

4. How old are Rahel and Estha when they are reunited as adults?
(a) 31.
(b) 33.
(c) 21.
(d) 23.

5. Velutha's hut is full of what?
(a) Pickle jars.
(b) Discards from the Kochamma household.
(c) Communist paraphanelia.
(d) Wood carvings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Estha and Rahel put in front of Velutha's hut the day they find the boat?

2. What does Margaret Kochamma say over and over again?

3. What is the religious background of Rahel's family?

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

5. Velutha is ____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the twins realize about Ammu years later?

2. Why does Rahel refer to the visit of Sophie Mol as the Play?

3. Describe Pappachi.

4. What does Velutha do after he is fired from the pickle factory?

5. Where did the saying "Big Man the Laltain, Small Man the Bombatti" come from?

6. What happens after Rahel and Estha see the Kathakali?

7. What other childhood treasures did Rahel find hidden with the Wisdom Exercise Notebooks?

8. Why does Chacko have trouble sleeping at the hotel the night before Sophie and Margaret Kochamma's arrival in India?

9. What do the twins do when they find a boat by the river?

10. Who is Velutha?

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