God of Small Things

1. God of Small Things Quiz Chapters 3-5

2. Rahel watched Estha with the curiosity of a mother watching her wet child. A sister a brother. A woman a man. A twin a twin.

3. Ssss for the Sound of Soo-soo. Mmm for the Sound of My--ooozick. Rahel giggled. Ammu giggled. Baby Kochamma giggled. When the trickle started they adjusted her aerial position. Rahel was unembarrassed.

4. In her mind she kept an organized, careful account of Things She’d done For People, and things People Hadn’t Done For Her.

5. Far below, on the ground, in the courtyard of the abbey, the cobblestones were shining. Nuns walked across it. Like slow cigars. Quiet nuns clustered quietly around their Reverend Mother, who never read their letters. They gathered like ants around a crumb of toast. No hair on their knees. No melons in their blouses. And their breath like peppermint.

6. Estha Alone needed Height. He searched for Height, and in a corner of HIS, he found it.

7. There was a nun in the audience. A nun with a puff. An Elvis Pelvis Nun. He couldn’t help it.

8. “Here. Behind the counter,” the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man said. He dropped his voice to a whisper. “It has to be a secret because drinks are not allowed before the interval.”

9. “D’you know what happens when you hurt people?” Ammu said. “When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less>’

10. A cold moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts landed lightly on Rahel’s heart.

11. To learn her. Imprint her on his memory. To ensure that when he thought of her, the child that he invoked would be accurate. He memorized the brown down on her soft skull. The shape of her puckered constantly moving mouth. The spaces between her toes.

12. The only snag in Comrade K.N.M Pillai’s plan was Velutha.

13. Foreign Objects Lodged Up Their Noses.

14. Minutes before that picture was taken she had finished explaining patiently to Estha and Rahel . . .how there was a pretty good chance that they were bastards, and what bastard really meant.

15. She arrived on the Bombay-Cochin flight. Hatted, bell-bottomed and Loved from the Beginning.