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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. In Chapter 3, what news does Pinky think is more interesting than the news Mr. Chawla reads
(a) The monkey who attacks women outside the theater.
(b) The chart of the top ten songs on radio.
(c) The set up for the next high school cricket game.
(d) The listings for movies in the area.

2. What does Vermaji invent?
(a) A large area humidifier.
(b) A new kind of cricket bat.
(c) An electric car engine.
(d) A giant fan.

3. In Chapter 5, what does Sampath tell his mother he wants?
(a) An egg.
(b) A new girlfriend
(c) His freedom.
(d) A new job.

4. With what does Mr. Chawla become obsessed?
(a) How to take advantage of Sampath’s fame.
(b) How to get Sampath out of the tree.
(c) Finding Sampath a wife with a huge dowry.
(d) How to find a high paying job for Sampath.

5. In Chapter 4, why is Sampath told to come to work early the next day?
(a) He did not get all his work done.
(b) So he can take some documents across town by eight.
(c) He is getting overtime.
(d) His shift is changing to start an hour earlier.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pinky decide she is going to get to work in Chapter 4?

2. Why did Miss Jyotsna have to get new clothes?

3. When living in the tree, how does Sampath get food at first?

4. When Sampath is first born, what does he seem like to Kulfi?

5. What does Mr. Chawla do in the mornings before work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sampath do when he is given a pile of letters at work in Chapter 4?

2. How is Shahkot’s problem finally alleviated, and what does Kulfi do when the answer comes?

3. What is going on with Sampath at the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. How does the Chawla family react to Sampath’s disappearance in Chapter 6?

5. Why is Sampath fired from his job?

6. What kind of food is Kulfi feeding Sampath, and what does she do in order to cook it?

7. What does Kulfi do when Sampath’s father is talking to him about getting fired? What happens after Sampath takes Kulfi’s offering?

8. What does Sampath do when he leaves the bus in Chapter 6?

9. What does Mr. Chawla do about his wife’s pregnancy? What does his mother suggest, and what does Kulfi do?

10. How does Pinky feel about what sections her father reads in the newspaper? What does she find interesting in the news?

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