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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 & 12 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mani feel when Swami tells him what the other boys wrote about him on the blackboard in Chapter 5?
(a) Happy.
(b) Embarrassed.
(c) He finds it funny.
(d) Upset.

2. What does Mani ask Swami to steal from his house, which he is unable to do?
(a) Money.
(b) Bread.
(c) Lime pickles.
(d) Milk.

3. What is the title of Chapter 11 of Swami and Friends?
(a) Father’s Presence.
(b) Father and Swami.
(c) Malgudi Summers.
(d) Father’s Club.

4. What does Swami break on the school during the school protest after Gauri Sankar’s arrest?
(a) The headmaster’s desk.
(b) A glass ventilator in the headmaster’s room
(c) A door.
(d) The headmaster’s cane.

5. The exam question Swami found easiest was about a tiger who offered what to a Brahmin?
(a) Gold earrings.
(b) Golden crown.
(c) Gold Bangle.
(d) Golden slippers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Granny explain to Swami that he will soon have in Chapter 7?

2. Who answers the door at Mani’s house in Chapter 10 and frightens Swami at first?

3. Who tells Swami he can get him an old cycle wheel for five rupees?

4. How does Swami feel when he looks at his mother in her room in Chapter 7?

5. What “idiotic” (60) thing does Swami’s father say he does not want to hear while he tries to work?

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