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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. How are the monkeys behaving in Chapter 16?

2. What do the police do when they find out Sampath is Pinky’s brother?

3. What is Sampath’s response to all the confusion with the plans and people?

4. What is Kulfi thinking about cooking in Chapter 21?

5. What town official does Mr. Chawla visit?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What new town official arrives in Chapter 20? Who his new assistant, and what does his assistant tell him?

3. What is Mr. Chawla’s plan for the monkeys?

4. How does Pinky get the Hungry Hop boy to like her again?

5. What is the Brigadier doing about the monkeys in Chapter 22?

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

8. What does Mr. Chawla want to do with his money from Sampath’s fame? What does Sampath say about the idea?

9. What is interfering with Sampath trying to console Pinky about the Hungry Hop boy?

10. What worries Kulfi about Sampath in Chapter 21, and what does she plan to do about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Characters are an integral and important part of novels. Discuss the following:

Compare/contrast the characters of Sampath and Pinky. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples. Compare/contrast the characters of Kulfi and Mr. Chawla. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?

Essay Topic 3

Sometimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than an action-driven plot, and sometimes it’s the other way.

What do you think it means to say that a plot is character-driven or action-driven? Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why? Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and characters are developed to the same degree? Why or why not? What type of plot do you think Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is?

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