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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 is distinguishing about Sampath when he is born?
2. Why does Mr. Chawla send Pinky with Amma to the market?
3. Why is Pinky mortified around the ice cream boy in Chapter 9?
4. What happens when Pinky goes to the bazaar one day?
5. In Chapter 5, what does Sampath tell his mother he wants?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the Chawla family first react to Sampath living in a tree, and what does Kulfi say about it?
2. Who helps Kulfi deliver her baby? What is distinguishing about the baby? What is he named?
3. 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?
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. How does Pinky feel about what sections her father reads in the newspaper? What does she find interesting in the news?
6. Why does the reporter from the atheist society think Sampath might be on drugs, and what does the reporter decide to do?
7. How does Kulfi feel about Sampath living in the tree, and what does she do for him?
8. Why is Sampath fired from his job?
9. How did Kulfi end up married to Mr. Chawla?
10. How does the Chawla family react to Sampath’s disappearance in Chapter 6?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
People like and dislike books for different and personal reasons.
Analyze and discuss what you think are the characteristics of a successful novel and why Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is or is not a successful novel based on your criteria. Do you think Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults?
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
Kulfi is a strange woman who is obsessed with food, as a symbol of a hunger inside of her that has not been met. Part of her hunger may stem from the relationship with her husband that does not seem to be fulfilling.
What do you think is the meaning of the above statement? How might Kulfi’s obsession with food relate to addiction? Why might eating seem to relieve some of Kulfi’s dissatisfaction with her life and her husband?
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