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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 monkeys do with all of Sampath’s mail?

2. What amazes the people about the monkeys around Sampath?

3. Who protests the Medical Officer’s plan?

4. What does Hungry Hop boy begin giving Pinky?

5. Why is Verma’s plan rejected?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is there a photographer at the orchard and what happens with him?

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

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

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

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

6. What happens that causes Sampath to lose control of the monkeys, and what do the monkeys do?

7. What does Pinky decide to do about the Hungry Hop boy being afraid of her?

8. How does Sampath end up friends with monkeys?

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

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

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

The viewpoint of the character.

Imagine you one of the characters in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Discuss why or how you would act differently to various situations than the character you have chosen.

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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