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More natural way to ask is "Учебник ли у него?" without "есть". This question implies that we know the he has something but we have some doubts that that thing is a textbook so we need to know...

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Even though Russian has no such a thing as article but there still are ways to express the idea of certainty and uncertainty. Here "ли" shifts the meaning of the question dramatically. Indeed "У...