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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is the first meeting to consider a proposal about the monkey problem held?
2. Why do the monkeys go to the bazaar?
3. Why are other towns protesting the Medical Officer’s plan?
4. What do all the people with plans on how to handle the monkeys do?
5. Why are monkey bites dangerous?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens that causes Sampath to lose control of the monkeys, and what do the monkeys do?
2. What happens when the three men with plans for the monkey problem ask Sampath for his blessing?
3. How is Sampath feeling about the orchard with all that is going on by Chaper 21?
4. What happens with the pictures the photographer takes of Sampath, and how does this change what is going on with Sampath?
5. What is interfering with Sampath trying to console Pinky about the Hungry Hop boy?
6. How does Sampath end up friends with monkeys?
7. What do the two factions who disagree about the monkey problem do? What does Miss Jyotsna do, and how do Amma and Pinky feel about the monkey situation?
8. Why is there a photographer at the orchard and what happens with him?
9. What does Pinky decide to do about the Hungry Hop boy being afraid of her?
10. What brings the monkeys back into the limelight in Chapter 18, and what makes the community fear them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Characters are an important part of what makes Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard interesting.
Thoroughly discuss and analyze Sampath. What are his strengths and weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he usually likable? Seldom likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas. Use the same criteria to thoroughly discuss and analyze Kufli and Mr. Chawla as well.
Essay Topic 2
Setting is both the location and the time period that a story takes place in.
Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Is there more than one setting?
Essay Topic 3
There are many different types of characters in a novel, each with their own role and purpose.
Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such. Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such. Which three secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.
Define the literary term "genre" and name three other genres in addition to the social criticism, satire genre. What are the advantages and disadvantages of assigning a genre to a novel? What do you think is the difference between a social criticism satire and a historical novel or mystery?
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