View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kulfi feel towards Sampath as Mr. Chawla is scolding him in Chapter 3?
(a) She pities him.
(b) She is irritated at him.
(c) She is indifferent towards him.
(d) She thinks it is humorous.

2. Why does Sampath begin to look better physically?
(a) He is away from his father.
(b) He not longer hates waking up in the morning.
(c) Kulfi makes gourmet food for him.
(d) Being out in the fresh air is good for him.

3. What do the goat herders say are in the woods?
(a) Bandits.
(b) Poisonous plants.
(c) Wolves and snakes.
(d) Snakes, scorpions and leeches.

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

5. Why is Pinky mortified around the ice cream boy in Chapter 9?
(a) He looks her over carefully.
(b) He laughs at the monkey.
(c) She is dressed so plain and unattractive.
(d) He laughs at Amma.

6. What does Sampath mention to Jyotsna one day in Chapter 8?
(a) Her debt to the sari shop
(b) That she bought too many clothes.
(c) That her daughter is going to have twins.
(d) Where her son moved.

7. 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 chickens that taste the food first.
(d) Mr. Chawla has a dog that eats it first.

8. How old is Kulfi Chawla?
(a) 21.
(b) 23.
(c) 17.
(d) 18.

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

10. In Chapter 3, what news does Pinky think is more interesting than the news Mr. Chawla reads
(a) The chart of the top ten songs on radio.
(b) The set up for the next high school cricket game.
(c) The listings for movies in the area.
(d) The monkey who attacks women outside the theater.

11. Where does the Chawla family seek help in Chapter 6?
(a) Medical doctors, homeopathic and naturopathic doctors.
(b) The local shaman.
(c) A Hindu guru.
(d) A Buddhist monk.

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

13. What does the monkey take from Amma at the market?
(a) Her new sari.
(b) Sampath’s new clothes.
(c) An advertising leaflet with Sampath’s picture on it.
(d) An ice cream cone.

14. What does Pinky do to a man who winks at her?
(a) Stomps on his foot.
(b) Kicks him in the shin.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Sticks him with her hair pin.

15. What does Mr. Chawla decide in Chapter 8 that Sampath could do for the family?
(a) Get them into a bigger house.
(b) Make a lot of money for the family.
(c) Make the family famous.
(d) Get them into the movies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old woman on the bus in Chapter 6 keep asking Sampath about?

2. Where does Mr. Chawla work?

3. Why does Mr. Chawla complain to his mother in Chapter 1?

4. What does the local holy man tell the family in Chapter 7?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 611 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample