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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What brings Sampath joy in Chapter 2?
(a) When his girlfriend returns to him.
(b) When he plays his guitar.
(c) Getting accepted at another college.
(d) When he sings about meeting a princess.

2. What kind of pictures does Kulfi draw?
(a) Pictures of landscapes.
(b) Pictures of food.
(c) Pictures of babies.
(d) Pictures of animals.

3. Where does Sampath fall asleep in Chapter 6?
(a) In a shed in the on a farm.
(b) In the branch of a guava tree.
(c) At a youth hostel.
(d) At a table in the library.

4. What kind of course does Pinky want to take?
(a) A typing course.
(b) A first aid course.
(c) A cooking course.
(d) A self defense course.

5. What does Sampath do at a wedding he attends?
(a) He is one of the ushers.
(b) Plays his guitar.
(c) Fills glasses with sherbet.
(d) Dances with the bride.

6. Who wants to expose Sampath as a fraud?
(a) A local holy man.
(b) A reporter from an atheist society.
(c) A college professor from the philosophy department.
(d) A reporter from the local newspaper.

7. Why did Miss Jyotsna have to get new clothes?
(a) She does not have to get new clothes.
(b) She burned her sari.
(c) Her husband hates the color of her sari.
(d) Her sari was ripped off her.

8. What does the Chawla family do about their missing son?
(a) They visit his girlfriend’s house.
(b) They call all his friends.
(c) They wait for him to come home.
(d) They go to the police.

9. In Chapter 4, why is Sampath told to come to work early the next day?
(a) So he can take some documents across town by eight.
(b) He did not get all his work done.
(c) His shift is changing to start an hour earlier.
(d) He is getting overtime.

10. How did Sampath find out about Jyotsna’s secret?
(a) He looked through her purse one day.
(b) He read a postcard from her son to his best friend.
(c) He keeps track of the clothes she wears.
(d) He read a letter from her daughter to Jyotsna.

11. When living in the tree, how does Sampath get food at first?
(a) One of the orchard pickers takes it to him.
(b) Pinky climbs up the tree with it.
(c) It is taken up by a local boy.
(d) It is dropped by hand glider.

12. What does the person who wants to expose Sampath as a fraud think might be true when he smells the air around the tree?
(a) Sampath might be on drugs.
(b) Sampath’s chamber pot is being emptied too close to the tree.
(c) Sampath is not bathing regularly.
(d) Sampath is being fed strange food.

13. What does Sampath finally do in Chapter 2 after he is unable to sleep?
(a) Goes to his girlfriend’s house.
(b) Turns the television off.
(c) Goes on the roof.
(d) Writes an application for another college.

14. How does Sampath feel when he bites into a guava after he gets off the bus?
(a) He misses his mother.
(b) He feels like a monkey.
(c) He feels hungry.
(d) He feels at home and energized.

15. What does Sampath want to tell his family when they come to see him in the tree?
(a) To go away.
(b) That he is happy in his new job.
(c) That he will not be coming home.
(d) That he is getting married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sampath do when he jumps in the fountain?

2. What does the newspaper say about Sampath in Chapter 7?

3. What does Sampath find at the wedding when he sneaks into the house?

4. What does Vermaji invent?

5. What increases Sampath’s popularity in Chapter 11?

(see the answer keys)

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