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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 15 of Swami and Friends?
(a) M.C.C. v. Y.M.U.
(b) The Big Game.
(c) Before the Match.
(d) After the Match.

2. What does the speaker at the protest say they have become slaves of, which confuses Mani and Swami?
(a) Schools.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Englishmen.
(d) Capitalism.

3. What does Mani offer to do in Chapter 11 as punishment for hurting Swami in Chapter 10?
(a) Do whatever Swami says for a week.
(b) Stand on his head for 10 minutes.
(c) Give Swami money.
(d) Do 20 pushups.

4. What does the coachman tell Swam he can turn copper into by putting it in a pot with special herbs?
(a) A hoop.
(b) A cycle wheel.
(c) Gold.
(d) Silver.

5. What does the cricket team name they choose, M.C.C. stand for?
(a) Master Cricket Company.
(b) Master Cricket Coalition.
(c) Malgudi Cricket Club.
(d) Malgudi Cricket Coalition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Swami break on the school during the school protest after Gauri Sankar’s arrest?

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

3. What does Swami do to a child in Infant Standards during the protest?

4. What is the title of Chapter 13 of Swami and Friends?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Swami’s father searches for Swami at Malgudi Station in Chapter 16?

2. What does Mani do to students after they are dismissed for vacation and how does Swami join him?

3. How does Rajam offer to help Swami try to make it to practice on time in Chapter 14?

4. What is Swami’s life like at Board School, which gets in the way of his cricket practice?

5. What does Swami become obsessed with obtaining while on vacation in Chapter 10 and what is it exactly?

6. In what way does Swami’s father get in the way of his fun once his father is on vacation from work?

7. How does Swam’s headmaster react when Rajam tells him his father is the Police Superintendent?

8. What is the difference between Swami’s friendship with Sankar, Somu, and the Pea and his friendship with Mani and Rajam as described in Chapter 10?

9. How does the headmaster punish those students who did not attend school and joined the protest instead in Chapter 12?

10. What is Swami worried is going to happen to him when he leaves the club with his father in Chapter 11?

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