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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 Sampath trying to do in Chapter 17 with which he is having a problem?

2. What does Sampath do about the monkeys in Chapter 15?

3. What are the Hungry Hop boy’s sisters insisting he do before he can drive his van?

4. What is the Brigadier doing to help with the plan in Chapter 22?

5. What does the new secretary tell the person who arrives in town at the beginning of Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the first proposal meeting at the DC’s residence?

2. How does Sampath end up friends with monkeys?

3. What do the monkeys do when they come back from the bazaar drunk?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do the two factions who disagree about the monkey problem do? What does Miss Jyotsna do, and how do Amma and Pinky feel about the monkey situation?

10. What is Kulfi searching for in Chapter 17? What are some of her ideas, and where does she go to look for 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

A plot is the order of events that make up a story.

Define plot and include the definitions of the most important elements of a plot. Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not? Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot? Give a brief synopsis of any important sub-plots.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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