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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 "The Wind on Haunted Hill," why do people keep stones on their roofs?
(a) To warm their houses up.
(b) They believe it keeps ghosts away.
(c) To keep the stones out of their fields.
(d) To keep the wind from blowing them away.

2. In the beginning of "The Wind on Haunted Hill," what makes the spooky sound on Haunted Hill?
(a) The wind.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) The rain.
(d) The creaking of a tin roof.

3. In "Snake Trouble," where is the last place that the family sees the snake?
(a) At Major Malik's house.
(b) In the Lucknow bazaar.
(c) Outside Aunt Ruby's house.
(d) On the train.

4. In "Romi and the Wildfire," what causes Romi to fall off of his bike?
(a) His bike chain comes off.
(b) A burning branch.
(c) The sudden appearance of Teju.
(d) Animals in the road.

5. In "A Special Tree," why does Rakesh's grandfather tell him not to plant the seed in the first place that Rakesh digs?
(a) When the tree grows tall, it will be too close to the house in that spot.
(b) The spot is not sunny enough.
(c) His grandfather believes that it is luckier to plant the seed on the eastern side of the house.
(d) His grandfather has just planted something else in that spot.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Special Tree," Rakesh goes to the bazaar. What is a bazaar?

2. At the end of "Monkey Trouble," where is the monkey?

3. In "Monkey Trouble," what job do both Aunt Ruby and her future husband do?

4. In "Tiger My Friend," what suddenly changes the tiger's circumstances for the worse?

5. In "Romi and the Wildfire," what creature does Teju say he had to jump over in the road?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Romi and the Wildfire," what reasons does Romi give Prem for not spending the night at Prem's house?

2. In "A School Among the Pines," what makes Miss Ramola seem sophisticated to the students?

3. At the end of "Tiger My Friend," what sound does Chottu hear, and what does it mean to him?

4. Describe the place where Rakesh lives in "A Special Tree."

5. In "A School Among the Pines," what really happened to Mr. Mani on the day that everyone thought he had been carried away by a leopard?

6. In "Romi and the Wildfire," what happens when Romi and Teju finally make it to the stream?

7. What are some of the lessons that Rakesh learns from his grandfather in "A Special Tree"?

8. In "Romi and the Wildfire," what does Romi tell Teju to do with the milk cans, and why?

9. In "Romi and the Wildfire," who is Teju, and how does he get caught in the burning forest?

10. 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?

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