After watching a kathakali performance towards the end of this novel, its two main characters make love as an act of “hideous grief.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this novel by the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy. It follows the “two-egg twins” Estha and Rahel.
ANSWER: The God of Small Things
[10m] Rahel looks at a closed business of this type in the first chapter of The God of Small Things. One of these businesses named after Catherine of Braganza appears in Midnight’s Children.
ANSWER: pickle factories [or pickle shops; accept Paradise Pickles & Preserves; accept the Braganza Pickle Factory; prompt on shops or factories by asking “for what product?”]
[10h] When stirring banana jam after being molested by the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man, Estha has “Two Thoughts” which undergird his actions throughout the rest of childhood. Name either phrase.
ANSWER: “Anything Can Happen To Anyone” OR “It’s Best To Be Prepared” [reject partial answers]
<Andrew Zeng, World Literature>