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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What increases Sampath’s popularity in Chapter 11?

2. What does the Chawla family hear about a guava tree in Chapter 6?

3. What does Sampath do with a pile of letters he is given in Chapter 4?

4. What does the person investigating Sampath begin to suspect in Chapter 11?

5. What does Kulfi know about Sampath?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter 10, what does the family finally do about Sampath staying in the orchard, and how does Mr. Chawla set it up?

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

6. How does Kulfi feel about Sampath living in the tree, and what does she do for him?

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mr. Chawla reads aloud the article about the former post office employee who is living in a guava tree. The child-like man is spiritual in nature and has "unfathomable wisdom."

What do you think the author is implying about children and wisdom with the mention of this newspaper article? Explain the irony that Sampath is considered wise when his use of information he obtained by being dishonest is the cause of people seeing him as wise.

Essay Topic 2

Setting is both the location and the time period that a story takes place in.

Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Is there more than one setting?

Essay Topic 3

Pinky is struggling with her life. She is trying to cope with a domineering father and a mother who has virtually abandoned her.

Discuss the ways in which Pinky’s life has been made both better and worse by her brother’s move to the orchard and his growing fame. Do you think Kulfi is aware enough to realize her daughter might feel abandoned?

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