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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the old woman on the bus in Chapter 6 keep asking Sampath about?
(a) Whether he might like her granddaughter.
(b) His girlfriend.
(c) His schooling.
(d) His family and his job.

2. What does Sampath want to tell his family when they come to see him in the tree?
(a) To go away.
(b) That he will not be coming home.
(c) That he is happy in his new job.
(d) That he is getting married.

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

4. What are Amma and Kulfi doing at the orchard in Chapter 8?
(a) Sending people away.
(b) Video taping the sessions with Sampath.
(c) Trying to talk Sampath into coming home.
(d) Tending to Sampath’s needs.

5. What does Sampath do at a wedding he attends?
(a) Dances with the bride.
(b) Fills glasses with sherbet.
(c) He is one of the ushers.
(d) Plays his guitar.

6. With what dos Mr. Chawla line the windows?
(a) Plastic sheeting.
(b) Duct tape.
(c) Sheer drapes.
(d) Fly traps.

7. What is keeping Sampath awake in Chapter 2?
(a) His father yelling at a neighbor.
(b) His mother watching television.
(c) His grandmother moaning in pain.
(d) His family snoring.

8. What do the police in Shahkot offer to sponsor?
(a) A frog wedding.
(b) A registration of children in town.
(c) A self-defense course.
(d) A pre-cricket match dance.

9. What does the person investigating Sampath begin to suspect in Chapter 11?
(a) Sampath gets his powers from his mother’s food.
(b) Sampath might be the real thing.
(c) Sampath is using his mother and father.
(d) Sampath’s sister is the actual wise person.

10. Where does Sampath work?
(a) His father’s bank
(b) The grocery store.
(c) The library.
(d) The post office.

11. What does Sampath find at the wedding when he sneaks into the house?
(a) The bride and groom kissing.
(b) A large sack of money.
(c) The room where the bridesmaids got ready for the wedding.
(d) A letter from his mother to the bride’s father.

12. Why did Miss Jyotsna have to get new clothes?
(a) Her husband hates the color of her sari.
(b) Her sari was ripped off her.
(c) She burned her sari.
(d) She does not have to get new clothes.

13. How does Sampath feel when he bites into a guava after he gets off the bus?
(a) He feels like a monkey.
(b) He misses his mother.
(c) He feels hungry.
(d) He feels at home and energized.

14. How does Sampath know the food his mother cooks him is not poisonous?
(a) There is no reason to think the food might be poisonous.
(b) Mr. Chawla has a dog that eats it first.
(c) Mr. Chawla has chickens that taste the food first.
(d) His mother always eats a bite first.

15. What does Sampath finally do in Chapter 2 after he is unable to sleep?
(a) Goes on the roof.
(b) Turns the television off.
(c) Goes to his girlfriend’s house.
(d) Writes an application for another college.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is everyone in Shahkot hoping at the beginning of the book?

2. Where does Sampath fall asleep in Chapter 6?

3. What is Sampath looking at during breakfast one morning?

4. How does Pinky feel about her brother’s behavior in Chapter 6?

5. What does Mr. Chawla do that makes noise when he showers?

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