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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Mr. Chawla do that makes noise when he showers?
(a) He does not make noise when he showers.
(b) Pounds on the shower wall.
(c) Sings at the top of his lungs.
(d) Clangs buckets together.

4. Why is Sampath miserable at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) His girlfriend broke up with him.
(b) He cannot find a job.
(c) He did not get accepted at the college he wanted.
(d) There is a heat wave.

5. What is Sampath looking at during breakfast one morning?
(a) His little sister’s clothes.
(b) His father's book.
(c) His grandmother’s lack of teeth.
(d) A fly that has landed on his food.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. With what does Mr. Chawla become obsessed?
(a) How to find a high paying job for Sampath.
(b) How to take advantage of Sampath’s fame.
(c) How to get Sampath out of the tree.
(d) Finding Sampath a wife with a huge dowry.

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

14. What kind of books does Mr. Chawla buy in Chapter 1?
(a) Books on confronting family members.
(b) Books on motivating a wife.
(c) Books on how to find a new job.
(d) Books on babies.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Sampath’s responses to visitors include?

3. What does Sampath want to tell his family when they come to see him in the tree?

4. What is distinguishing about Sampath when he is born?

5. What does Kulfi think about all the time?

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