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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As shown in Chapter 2, what does Mr. Chawla demand from his family?
(a) Help in getting ready for work.
(b) To go and get jobs.
(c) To meet him for lunch.
(d) To clean up the house.

2. What does Sampath do with a pile of letters he is given in Chapter 4?
(a) Steams them open and reads them.
(b) Takes them to the post office.
(c) Sorts them into piles by sender.
(d) Reads them and takes notes for his boss.

3. What does Sampath find at the wedding when he sneaks into the house?
(a) A large sack of money.
(b) The room where the bridesmaids got ready for the wedding.
(c) The bride and groom kissing.
(d) A letter from his mother to the bride’s father.

4. What does Sampath finally do in Chapter 2 after he is unable to sleep?
(a) Goes to his girlfriend’s house.
(b) Turns the television off.
(c) Goes on the roof.
(d) Writes an application for another college.

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

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

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

8. On whom does Mr. Chawla blame Sampath’s behavior?
(a) On his mother.
(b) On his daughter.
(c) On his wife.
(d) On Sampath’s former boss.

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

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

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

12. What does Amma tell the person who wants to expose Sampath as a fraud?
(a) Sampath has always been remote from the real world.
(b) Sampath does not answer every question as to leave some mystery.
(c) Sampath protects those who have done wrong.
(d) Sampath is human and does not know everything.

13. What does Mr. Chawla sell to orchard visitors in Chapter 10?
(a) A book of wise saying by Sampath.
(b) Guava branches.
(c) Pendants with Sampath’s face on them.
(d) Flowers and garlands.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kulfi collect in the woods and ponds?

2. What does Vermaji invent?

3. What happens when Pinky goes to the bazaar one day?

4. With what does Kulfi bribe the butcher?

5. When Sampath is first born, what does he seem like to Kulfi?

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