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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mani pour over students as they leave school on the last day?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Chalk dust.
(c) Milk.
(d) Ink.

2. What is NOT one of the places Swami’s father attempted to search for Swami prior to looking for his body in the river?
(a) Rajam’s House.
(b) His School.
(c) The Market.
(d) Mani’s House.

3. After stopping a village boy on a bullock drawn cart, who do Swami and his friends tell the boy they are?
(a) Military Personnel.
(b) Detectives.
(c) Government Police.
(d) Spies.

4. Which Albert Mission students does Rajam tell the headmaster are allowed to leave promptly at 4:30?
(a) Sports players.
(b) Students with perfect attendance.
(c) Students with good grades.
(d) All students.

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

6. Whose arrest are people protesting at the start of Chapter 12?
(a) Ramayana.
(b) Gauri Sankar.
(c) Gandhi.
(d) Mahabharata.

7. What does Swami tell his drillmaster he suffers from in order to get out of drill and get to cricket practice on time in Chapter 15?
(a) Gastrointestinal Issues.
(b) Headache.
(c) Stomach trouble.
(d) Delirium.

8. Who does Rajam say he will speak to in order to help Swami reduce his school workload so he can attend practice?
(a) The drill sergeant.
(b) Swami’s Father.
(c) Swami’s teachers.
(d) The Board School Headmaster.

9. Whose turban does Mani say he wants to dye with ink on the last day of school?
(a) Singaram.
(b) The Headmaster’s.
(c) His father’s.
(d) Mr. Ebenezar’s.

10. Swami stays close to Mani on the last day of school because of a belief among students that what happens on the last day?
(a) Enemies stab each other.
(b) Students who fail exams are caned.
(c) The headmaster canes students while leaving.
(d) Mani beats everyone up.

11. Who is Swami always with once school vacation begins?
(a) Mani and Rajim.
(b) His baby brother.
(c) Somu and Sankar.
(d) His parents.

12. What does Swami do with the headmaster’s cane when he takes if from him in Chapter 15?
(a) Throws it out the window.
(b) Hits the headmaster with it.
(c) Breaks it in half.
(d) Runs away with it.

13. Despite the oppressive summer heat, which part of day do Mani, Rajam, and Swami find most fascinating according to Chapter 10?
(a) Morning.
(b) Noon.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Evening.

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

15. What is the title of Chapter 13 of Swami and Friends?
(a) The Cricket Team.
(b) Swami and friends play cricket.
(c) Swami’s New School.
(d) The M.C.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Swami’s father when he touches a wet spot to see if it is blood in Chapter 16?

2. What does Rajam tell Swami he is after he tells him he is no longer going to school at the end of Chapter 15?

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

4. Swami’s attachment to Somu, Sankar, and the Pea is referred to as purely what in Chapter 10?

5. What is the headmaster doing when Rajam and Swami enter in Chapter 14?

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