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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. For what does the Chawla family have enough money in Chapter 14?
(a) To buy a mansion.
(b) To have a huge dowry for Pinky.
(c) To build Sampath a proper hermitage.
(d) So Mr. Chawla can retire.

2. In Chapter 18, what makes people believe the monkeys are dangerous?
(a) They attack the police at the orchard.
(b) They throw Sampath out of his tree.
(c) They get into the liquor store and break half the bottles.
(d) They attack two men at a café.

3. What amazes the people about the monkeys around Sampath?
(a) That they obey Sampath’s orders.
(b) How tame they have become.
(c) That they do not bother anyone in the orchard.
(d) That they seem to be very wise.

4. Why does Mr. Chawla go to see a town official?
(a) To find a husband for Pinky.
(b) To ask about a building permit.
(c) To have the orchard deeded over to Sampath.
(d) To have something done about the monkeys.

5. How did the man from the biology department try to capture monkeys once?
(a) Catching the lead monkey with a rope and leading him away.
(b) Using cages with trap doors.
(c) Putting sleeping pills in the monkey’s food.
(d) Shooting them with a tranquillizer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 23, on what day does Pinky tell the Hungry Hop boy to meet her?

2. What does the Hungry Hop boy think he will do when he meets Pinky in Chapter 23?

3. Where is the Hungry Hop boy at the beginning of Chapter 16?

4. Why are the policemen not included in the plan in Chapter 22?

5. What are the Hungry Hop boy’s sisters insisting he do before he can drive his van?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is interfering with Sampath trying to console Pinky about the Hungry Hop boy?

2. Why is there a photographer at the orchard and what happens with him?

3. What is Kulfi searching for in Chapter 17? What are some of her ideas, and where does she go to look for it?

4. What is Mr. Chawla’s plan for the monkeys?

5. What are the three plans that Verma, the Chief Medical Officer and the Brigadier come up with to solve the monkey problem?

6. What happens with the pictures the photographer takes of Sampath, and how does this change what is going on with Sampath?

7. How does Pinky end up at the police station?

8. What happens that causes Sampath to lose control of the monkeys, and what do the monkeys do?

9. Why is the Hungry Hop boy not outside in Chapter 22?

10. What does the man in the biology department think about when he is reading the article about the monkeys in the orchard and what does his wife say?

(see the answer keys)

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