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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. Why is Kulfi worried about Sampath in Chapter 22?

2. Where is the first meeting to consider a proposal about the monkey problem held?

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

4. Where is one of Sampath’s pictures published?

5. What does the atheist spy do when Pinky stabs him with her hairpin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What brings the monkeys back into the limelight in Chapter 18, and what makes the community fear them?

5. What happens with the pictures the photographer takes of Sampath, and how does this change what is going on with Sampath?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Novels are made up on themes, or important ideas that run throughout the storyline.

Trace and analyze the theme of freedom in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Consider the following questions as you write: Examine which characters are most concerned with freedom and about what their concern is centered. What are some symbols of freedom and of imprisonment? Discuss the characters that see themselves as "imprisoned" and what they think they need to be free.

Trace and analyze the theme of satisfaction with one’s life in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess be satisfied with their life and which are not? Why?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Foreshadowing is used in almost all works of fiction. Discuss the following:

What is foreshadowing? Identify three instances of foreshadowing in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and what they foreshadow? How does foreshadowing contribute to a book's suspense? Are there any incidences that you thought foreshadows a future event, but it does not do so?

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