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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sampath finally do in Chapter 2 after he is unable to sleep?

2. What kind of books does Mr. Chawla buy in Chapter 1?

3. What does Vermaji invent?

4. What does the local holy man tell the family in Chapter 7?

5. What does the person who wants to expose Sampath as a fraud think might be true when he smells the air around the tree?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pinky feel about what sections her father reads in the newspaper? What does she find interesting in the news?

2. Why is Sampath fired from his job?

3. What is the problem in Shahkot, India, and what are some of the ways the people think to try and solve the problem?

4. What does Mr. Chawla do in the mornings before work? What is he like with his family in the mornings?

5. What does Sampath do when he is given a pile of letters at work in Chapter 4?

6. How does the Chawla family first react to Sampath living in a tree, and what does Kulfi say about it?

7. How did Kulfi end up married to Mr. Chawla?

8. What happens to Amma and Pinky when they go to the denture market?

9. How does the Chawla family react to Sampath’s disappearance in Chapter 6?

10. How does Pinky feel about all the attention given to her brother? What happens when she goes to the bazaar, and what does Mr. Chawla tell her to do about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are many different types of characters in a novel, each with their own role and purpose.

Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such. Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such. Which three secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

Define the literary term "genre" and name three other genres in addition to the social criticism, satire genre. What are the advantages and disadvantages of assigning a genre to a novel? What do you think is the difference between a social criticism satire and a historical novel or mystery?

Essay Topic 2

Setting is both the location and the time period that a story takes place in.

Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Is there more than one setting?

Essay Topic 3

Characters are an integral and important part of novels. Discuss the following:

Compare/contrast the characters of Sampath and Pinky. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples. Compare/contrast the characters of Kulfi and Mr. Chawla. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?

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