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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Hungry Hop boy get the note to Pinky in Chapter 23?
(a) With the milkman.
(b) His dog carries it to her.
(c) With the mail carrier.
(d) With his best friend.

2. What amazes the people about the monkeys around Sampath?
(a) How tame they have become.
(b) That they do not bother anyone in the orchard.
(c) That they seem to be very wise.
(d) That they obey Sampath’s orders.

3. Why are other towns protesting the Medical Officer’s plan?
(a) They do not believe that is the real problem with the monkeys.
(b) They think the monkeys will come to their town.
(c) They do not want dead monkeys lying around.
(d) They are not protesting anything.

4. In Chapter 22, what has Sampath decided he must do?
(a) Help the monkeys.
(b) Quit eating his mother’s food.
(c) Escape the orchard.
(d) Obtain liquor for the alcoholic monkeys.

5. Why are the policemen not included in the plan in Chapter 22?
(a) They fall under a different authority.
(b) They refused to help.
(c) They have too many other duties.
(d) They are not considered capable of doing the work.

6. Where is the Hungry Hop boy at the beginning of Chapter 23?
(a) Trapped in his house.
(b) Working in the Downtown Café.
(c) Driving his ice cream van.
(d) At the Chawla’s old house.

7. What does the atheist spy do when Pinky stabs him with her hairpin?
(a) Leaves town.
(b) Takes her hair pin away.
(c) Goes to the clinic.
(d) Slaps her.

8. What do the police do with Pinky when they first arrest her?
(a) They put her in jail for two days.
(b) They laught at her.
(c) They are very harsh with her.
(d) They handcuff her.

9. Why is Verma’s plan rejected?
(a) It is too unsanitary and violent.
(b) People want Sampath to stay where he is.
(c) No one wants to leave the orchard alone for two weeks.
(d) No one wants to burn so many trees.

10. Why does Mr. Chawla go to see a town official?
(a) To find a husband for Pinky.
(b) To have something done about the monkeys.
(c) To ask about a building permit.
(d) To have the orchard deeded over to Sampath.

11. Why is Sampath no longer happy with the orchard in Chapter 21?
(a) It is too noisy.
(b) It is filled with debris and trash.
(c) The monkeys’ droppings smell very bad.
(d) The trees no longer produce fruit.

12. Where is one of Sampath’s pictures published?
(a) Times of India.
(b) In People magazine.
(c) In Life magazine.
(d) India News Weekly.

13. In Chapter 18, what makes people believe the monkeys are dangerous?
(a) They attack the police at the orchard.
(b) They attack two men at a café.
(c) They throw Sampath out of his tree.
(d) They get into the liquor store and break half the bottles.

14. Who arrives in town at the beginning of Chapter 20?
(a) A zoologist.
(b) The District Collector.
(c) The governor.
(d) India’s president.

15. What does Kulfi say about Sampath’s assertion concerning the monkeys in Chapter 14?
(a) She likes feeding the monkeys.
(b) She agrees with him.
(c) She has no opinion.
(d) She agrees with Mr. Chawla.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the man from the biology department try to capture monkeys once?

2. What do all the people with plans on how to handle the monkeys do?

3. In Chapter 16, what is bothering Sampath that is coming soon?

4. What is the Brigadier doing to help with the plan in Chapter 22?

5. How is the furor over the monkeys affecting Sampath?

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