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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kulfi collect in the woods and ponds?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Strange looking insects.
(c) Exotic foods.
(d) Examples of the beauty of nature.

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sampath find out about Jyotsna’s secret?

2. What does Pinky do at the tree when she and Amma get back from the market?

3. For what does Mr. Chawla scold Sampath in Chapter 3?

4. What does Mr. Chawla decide in Chapter 8 that Sampath could do for the family?

5. How does Sampath know the food his mother cooks him is not poisonous?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sampath do during the night in Chapter 2? What does he see in the morning? What does his grandmother say to him in the morning?

2. What kind of food is Kulfi feeding Sampath, and what does she do in order to cook it?

3. What does Mr. Chawla do about his wife’s pregnancy? What does his mother suggest, and what does Kulfi do?

4. How does Pinky feel about what sections her father reads in the newspaper? What does she find interesting in the news?

5. How does Pinky feel about all the attention given to her brother? What happens when she goes to the bazaar, and what does Mr. Chawla tell her to do about it?

6. Why is Sampath fired from his job?

7. How is Pinky getting to work when Chapter 4 opens, and what happens with that form of transportation?

8. What is going on with Sampath at the beginning of Chapter 2?

9. Why does a reporter from the atheist society talk to Sampath, and what happens when he does talk to Sampath?

10. Why does the reporter from the atheist society think Sampath might be on drugs, and what does the reporter decide to do?

(see the answer keys)

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