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

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

3. What does Kulfi know about Sampath?
(a) That he belongs in the tree.
(b) That his father will come to appreciate him.
(c) That he will run out of things to say when he is no longer reading mail.
(d) That he will eventually come down.

4. How does Kulfi feel towards Sampath as Mr. Chawla is scolding him in Chapter 3?
(a) She pities him.
(b) She is irritated at him.
(c) She is indifferent towards him.
(d) She thinks it is humorous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pinky do to a man who winks at her?

2. What does the local holy man tell the family in Chapter 7?

3. What does Sampath find at the wedding when he sneaks into the house?

4. What does Sampath do when he jumps in the fountain?

5. In Chapter 3, what news does Pinky think is more interesting than the news Mr. Chawla reads

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens at the moment of Kulfi’s baby’s birth?

3. What does the atheist spy decide about Sampath’s food? How does the atheist spy try to investigate it? How does Kulfi’s cooking relate to the number of hours Mr. Chawla allows people to see Sampath?

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

5. How does Sampath amaze Jyotsna with his knowledge?

6. How does the Chawla family first react to Sampath living in a tree, and what does Kulfi say about it?

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

8. Why is Sampath fired from his job?

9. What does Sampath do when he leaves the bus in Chapter 6?

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

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