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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. With what does Kulfi bribe the butcher?
(a) With an extra tip.
(b) That she will date his son
(c) A pretty smile.
(d) Silk.

9. How did Sampath find out about Jyotsna’s secret?
(a) He read a postcard from her son to his best friend.
(b) He keeps track of the clothes she wears.
(c) He read a letter from her daughter to Jyotsna.
(d) He looked through her purse one day.

10. What does Kulfi offer Sampath when his father is criticizing him for his behavior at the wedding?
(a) A piece of advice.
(b) A smile.
(c) A fresh guava.
(d) A banana.

11. What is distinguishing about Sampath when he is born?
(a) He does not cry.
(b) He has blue eyes.
(c) He has extremely long hair.
(d) A brown birthmark on one cheek.

12. What picture does Sampath think about on his way home from work in Chapter 4?
(a) A painting done by his mother.
(b) A beautiful princess.
(c) An ape with a very big, red bottom.
(d) A picture of a huge mansion.

13. Why does Mr. Chawla complain to his mother in Chapter 1?
(a) His wife will not clean the house.
(b) His sister continues to steal money from him.
(c) His boss wants him to work too many hours.
(d) His mother arranged his marriage.

14. What does the person who wants to expose Sampath as a fraud think might be true when he smells the air around the tree?
(a) Sampath’s chamber pot is being emptied too close to the tree.
(b) Sampath is not bathing regularly.
(c) Sampath might be on drugs.
(d) Sampath is being fed strange food.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pinky decide she is going to get to work in Chapter 4?

2. Where is Sampath’s family going at the beginning of Chapter 6?

3. What does the Chawla family hear about a guava tree in Chapter 6?

4. What does the newspaper say about Sampath in Chapter 7?

5. When living in the tree, how does Sampath get food at first?

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