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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 "A School Among the Pines," what is the name of the village where the dam is being built?
(a) Tehri.
(b) Tehri.
(c) Koli.
(d) Kaza.

2. In "A School Among the Pines," what is the name of the village where the children go to school?
(a) Nauti.
(b) Tehri.
(c) Koli.
(d) Kaza.

3. In "Tiger My Friend," what suddenly changes the tiger's circumstances for the worse?
(a) Fire.
(b) Drought.
(c) Poachers.
(d) A flood.

4. In "Snake Trouble," what is the name of the village where the narrator lives with his grandparents?
(a) Nauti.
(b) Mussoorie.
(c) Dehra.
(d) Koli.

5. In the end of "The Wind on Haunted Hill," what do Usha and the others think they hear someone saying over and over?
(a) Come back.
(b) Beware.
(c) Goodbye.
(d) Help us.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Snake Trouble," who ends up doing the job of the train's stoker?

2. In "The Wind on Haunted Hill," where does Usha go in the afteroon?

3. In "The Wind on Haunted Hill," who is Suresh?

4. In "Monkey Trouble," what does the monkey throw at the wedding guests besides cake?

5. In "A Special Tree," what is it logical to infer from the detail that Rakesh "kept the last seed in his mouth for some time, rolling it round and round on his tongue until all the tang had gone" (2)?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Tiger My Friend," why do the villagers leave the tiger alone at first?

2. Describe the narrator of "Monkey Trouble."

3. In "Snake Trouble," where does the narrator think that the python is living, and what is it eating?

4. Near the end of "A School Among the Pines," what do the children find out about the leopard, and how does it change their perspective?

5. In "Monkey Trouble," what does Tutu take from Uncle Benji, and what does she do with it?

6. In "Monkey Trouble," how does Rocky Fernandes make friends with Grandmother and the narrator?

7. In "The Wind on Haunted Hill," what story has Usha been told about the ruined settlement?

8. In "Tiger My Friend," what problem is the tiger facing with its territory?

9. Why is weather so important to the setting and plot of "The Wind on Haunted Hill?"

10. In "A School Among the Pines," why does Bina end up doing so much work at home?

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