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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. For what is Sampath’s boss recruiting some of his employees?

2. What are Amma and Kulfi doing at the orchard in Chapter 8?

3. What kind of course does Pinky want to take?

4. What does Sampath do before he returns to the wedding party?

5. What does Kulfi think about all the time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. What does Mr. Chawla do in the mornings before work? What is he like with his family in the mornings?

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

8. What is the problem in Shahkot, India, and what are some of the ways the people think to try and solve the problem?

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

10. What kind of food is Kulfi feeding Sampath, and what does she do in order to cook it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Foreshadowing is used in almost all works of fiction. Discuss the following:

What is foreshadowing? Identify three instances of foreshadowing in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and what they foreshadow? How does foreshadowing contribute to a book's suspense? Are there any incidences that you thought foreshadows a future event, but it does not do so?

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