Chapter pappachis-moth: Pappachi’s Moth | Extract Questions

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His life's greatest setback was not having had the moth that he had discovered named after him... After six unbearable months of anxiety, to Pappachi's intense disappointment, he was told that his moth had finally been identified as a slightly unusual race of a well-known species that belonged to the tropical family, Lymantriidae.

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One night Pappachi broke the bow of Mammachi's violin and threw it in the river... Chacko strode into the room, caught Pappachi's vase-hand and twisted it around his back. 'I never want this to happen again,' he told his father, 'Ever.'

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He bought the skyblue Plymouth from an old Englishman in Munnar. He became a familiar sight in Ayemenem, coasting importantly down the narrow road in his wide car, looking outwardly elegant but sweating freely inside his woollen suits. He wouldn't allow Mammachi or anyone else in the family to use it.