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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of course does Pinky want to take?
(a) A first aid course.
(b) A self defense course.
(c) A typing course.
(d) A cooking course.

3. How much money does the Chawla family begin to make off Sampath?
(a) They do not make any money off Sampath.
(b) Just a little money.
(c) More than Mr. Chawla makes at his job.
(d) Enough to put huge amounts into a savings account.

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

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

6. For what is everyone in Shahkot hoping at the beginning of the book?
(a) More jobs.
(b) Rain.
(c) The president will visit.
(d) Warmer weather.

7. What increases Sampath’s popularity in Chapter 11?
(a) Kulfi begins to sell some of her concoctions.
(b) Pinky begins to recite poetry she writes with his pithy sayings.
(c) r. Chawla cuts visiting hours.
(d) Sampath begins to predict the future.

8. What does Sampath do before he returns to the wedding party?
(a) Puts on a sari and a jeweled nose ring.
(b) Reads the letter from his mother.
(c) Hides the sack of money.
(d) Pretends to blackmail the bride and groom.

9. 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) Being out in the fresh air is good for him.
(d) Kulfi makes gourmet food for him.

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

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

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

13. What does Kulfi tell the rest of the family about Sampath in Chapter 6?
(a) That Sampath is mentally ill.
(b) That Sampath will be fine.
(c) That she is going to go live with Sampath.
(d) To leave him alone.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of books does Mr. Chawla buy in Chapter 1?

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

3. Why is Sampath miserable at the beginning of Chapter 2?

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

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

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