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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. In Chapter 5, what does Sampath tell his mother he wants?

2. Why is Sampath miserable at the beginning of Chapter 2?

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?

4. What does Kulfi collect in the woods and ponds?

5. When Sampath’s family and others gather beneath the tree in Chapter 7, what does Sampath say?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sampath amaze Jyotsna with his knowledge?

2. 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?

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

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

5. Why is Sampath fired from his job?

6. 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?

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

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

9. What happens to Amma and Pinky when they go to the denture market?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How a novel ends can play a big part of the readers’ experience and satisfaction in reading the book.

Do you think most people want a happy ending in a novel? Do you think Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard would qualify as a novel with a happy ending? Why or why not? What do you think are three reasons to read fiction and do you think Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard fulfills these three reasons? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Novels are made up on themes, or important ideas that run throughout the storyline.

Trace and analyze the theme of freedom in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Consider the following questions as you write: Examine which characters are most concerned with freedom and about what their concern is centered. What are some symbols of freedom and of imprisonment? Discuss the characters that see themselves as "imprisoned" and what they think they need to be free.

Trace and analyze the theme of satisfaction with one’s life in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess be satisfied with their life and which are not? Why?

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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