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

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

3. What does the person who wants to expose Sampath as a fraud think might be true when he smells the air around the tree?
(a) Sampath’s chamber pot is being emptied too close to the tree.
(b) Sampath might be on drugs.
(c) Sampath is being fed strange food.
(d) Sampath is not bathing regularly.

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

5. What does Sampath do at a wedding he attends?
(a) Plays his guitar.
(b) Fills glasses with sherbet.
(c) He is one of the ushers.
(d) Dances with the bride.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of books does Mr. Chawla buy in Chapter 1?

2. In Chapter 10, what does the Chawla family do at the orchard?

3. What does Sampath finally do in Chapter 2 after he is unable to sleep?

4. How much money does the Chawla family begin to make off Sampath?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Kulfi end up married to Mr. Chawla?

4. In Chapter 7, how does Sampath end up being considered a wise man?

5. Where does Sampath sneak off to during the wedding, and what does he do?

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

7. What does Kulfi do when Sampath’s father is talking to him about getting fired? What happens after Sampath takes Kulfi’s offering?

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

9. Why is Sampath fired from his job?

10. How does Mr. Chawla feel towards Sampath at breakfast in Chapter 3? What does he do, and what is Sampath’s response?

(see the answer keys)

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