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

2. What does Verma decide will solve the monkey problem?
(a) Burn the orchard.
(b) Kill the Cinema Monkey and display his carcass.
(c) Have everyone leave the orchard alone for two weeks.
(d) Make Sampath go home.

3. What is Kulfi thinking about cooking in Chapter 21?
(a) A guava pie.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A monkey.
(d) Plain porridge.

4. What is Sampath doing with Pinky in Chapter 16?
(a) Finding her a husband.
(b) Showing her how to sleep in a tree.
(c) Trying to console her.
(d) Teaching her how to talk with monkeys.

5. Where have the monkeys raided in Chapter 21 looking for liquor?
(a) A retired Judge’s residence.
(b) The former Chawla’s residence.
(c) The Downtown Café and Bar.
(d) The university’s cafeteria.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the Hungry Hop Boy feel when he thinks of Pinky in Chapter 16?

3. Why do the monkeys go to the bazaar?

4. Why are the policemen not included in the plan in Chapter 22?

5. What does Pinky decide to write about to Hungry Hop boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the two factions who disagree about the monkey problem do? What does Miss Jyotsna do, and how do Amma and Pinky feel about the monkey situation?

2. Why is there a photographer at the orchard and what happens with him?

3. Why does Mr. Chawla visit the Chief Medical Office? How does the officer feel about Mr. Chawla, and what does he tell Mr. Chawla?

4. What is Kulfi searching for in Chapter 17? What are some of her ideas, and where does she go to look for it?

5. What is the Brigadier doing about the monkeys in Chapter 22?

6. What new town official arrives in Chapter 20? Who his new assistant, and what does his assistant tell him?

7. Why is the Hungry Hop boy not outside in Chapter 22?

8. What is interfering with Sampath trying to console Pinky about the Hungry Hop boy?

9. What brings the monkeys back into the limelight in Chapter 18, and what makes the community fear them?

10. What are the three plans that Verma, the Chief Medical Officer and the Brigadier come up with to solve the monkey problem?

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