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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 team does Rajam ask Swami if he would like to start in Chapter 13?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Field Hockey.
(d) Cricket.

2. Where is Swami’s father when he touches a wet spot to see if it is blood in Chapter 16?
(a) The hospital.
(b) Malgudi Railway Station.
(c) The river bank.
(d) Swami’s Room.

3. Who tells Swami he can get him an old cycle wheel for five rupees?
(a) The coachman.
(b) Mani.
(c) Rajam.
(d) The tailor.

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

5. What does Rajam call Swami’s headmaster at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) A monster.
(b) A madman.
(c) A madcap.
(d) A lunatic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of Chapter 10 of Swami and Friends?

3. Whose turban does Mani say he wants to dye with ink on the last day of school?

4. What does Swami realized to his surprise that Granny knows nothing about so he explains it to her in Chapter 14?

5. Where does the mob move on to after leaving Swami’s school in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Swami impress his teammates at their first cricket practice and what nickname does he earn?

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

3. How does Swami react when his headmaster canes him for missing drill for a whole week?

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

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

6. Describe the protest at the start of Chapter 12.

7. Why is Swami relieved to find a protest outside of his school the day after Gauri Sankar’s arrest?

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

9. 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?

10. Why does Swami’s father search near the Sarayu when Swami is missing in Chapter 16?

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