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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 do the two factions who oppose each other about the monkeys do?

2. What does Miss Jyotsna think about the monkeys?

3. How does Sampath win over the monkeys who arrive at the orchard?

4. What will Sampath have to do in Chapter 21 in order to get rid of the monkeys?

5. In Chapter 23, on what day does Pinky tell the Hungry Hop boy to meet her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Sampath feeling about the orchard with all that is going on by Chaper 21?

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

3. What does Sampath do when the monkeys return to the compound, and then what do the monkeys do?

4. What happens when the three men with plans for the monkey problem ask Sampath for his blessing?

5. What does the man in the biology department think about when he is reading the article about the monkeys in the orchard and what does his wife say?

6. How does the Hungry Hop boy feel about the girl his sisters have chosen for him to marry, and how does he get out of the house?

7. How does Sampath end up friends with monkeys?

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

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

10. How does Pinky end up at the police station?

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

Mr. Chawla likes to have attention--he makes noise and demands to gain the notice not only of his family but of the entire neighborhood. He prides himself in having an important position at the bank. He feels superior to his son, whom he considers a failure with no ambition.

Discuss what Mr. Chawla’s need for attention says about his feelings about himself. Do you think there is a possibility that Mr. Chawla actually feels inferior to most people? Why or why not? How might Mr. Chawla’s need to be noticed relate to how he feels about his son?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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