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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of pictures does Kulfi draw?
(a) Pictures of animals.
(b) Pictures of babies.
(c) Pictures of landscapes.
(d) Pictures of food.

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

3. What does the local holy man tell the family in Chapter 7?
(a) To find Sampath a wife.
(b) To have Sampath committed to an institute.
(c) To sit near Sampath and meditate.
(d) To leave the boy alone.

4. What does Mr. Chawla do in the mornings before work?
(a) Exercise in the courtyard.
(b) Does one half hour of meditation.
(c) Reads one chapter in a book.
(d) Plays with his son.

5. What does the Chawla family do about their missing son?
(a) They wait for him to come home.
(b) They call all his friends.
(c) They visit his girlfriend’s house.
(d) They go to the police.

6. What does the newspaper say about Sampath in Chapter 7?
(a) He is spiritual in nature and very wise.
(b) He is mentally ill.
(c) He should return home.
(d) He is trespassing in the orchard.

7. How does Pinky decide she is going to get to work in Chapter 4?
(a) Her father will drop her off.
(b) On the back of Sampath’s bike.
(c) On the bus.
(d) Her boyfriend will pick her up.

8. What does Amma want Kulfi to do in Chapter 1?
(a) Sit down and watch television.
(b) Take vitamins.
(c) Exercise.
(d) Take herbs and sing.

9. For what does Mr. Chawla scold Sampath in Chapter 3?
(a) Because Sampath did not get into the best college.
(b) For Sampath’s inability to get a better job or a raise.
(c) For Sampath moping over his girlfriend.
(d) Because Sampath is too attached to Sampath’s mother.

10. What does the Chawla family hear about a guava tree in Chapter 6?
(a) They do not hear anything about a guava tree.
(b) There is a strange man living in one.
(c) There is a large monkey living in one.
(d) The owner of the oldest guava tree outside town is cutting it down.

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

12. For what is Sampath’s boss recruiting some of his employees?
(a) To take a cut in hours.
(b) To work overtime on the weekend.
(c) To keep the coffee pot full.
(d) To help with his daughter’s wedding.

13. In Chapter 10, what does the Chawla family do at the orchard?
(a) Buy the orchard.
(b) Set up living quarters.
(c) Fence off the tree in which Sampath is staying.
(d) Set up a booth to sell tickets to see Sampath.

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

15. Where is Sampath’s family going at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A wedding.
(c) On vacation.
(d) His grandparents’ house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What picture does Sampath think about on his way home from work in Chapter 4?

2. What does Mr. Chawla sell to orchard visitors in Chapter 10?

3. What does the person who wants to expose Sampath as a fraud think might be true when he smells the air around the tree?

4. What increases Sampath’s popularity in Chapter 11?

5. Why does Sampath begin to look better physically?

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