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

2. What organization is formed around the monkey controversy?

3. Why is Mr. Chawla concerned about he monkeys in Chapter 21?

4. How does the Hungry Hop boy get the note to Pinky in Chapter 23?

5. What amazes the people about the monkeys around Sampath?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pinky get the Hungry Hop boy to like her again?

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

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

4. What does Sampath do when the monkeys return to the compound, and then what do the monkeys do?

5. What brings the monkeys back into the limelight in Chapter 18, and what makes the community fear them?

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

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

8. How is Sampath feeling about the orchard with all that is going on by Chaper 21?

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kulfi is a strange woman who is obsessed with food, as a symbol of a hunger inside of her that has not been met. Part of her hunger may stem from the relationship with her husband that does not seem to be fulfilling.

What do you think is the meaning of the above statement? How might Kulfi’s obsession with food relate to addiction? Why might eating seem to relieve some of Kulfi’s dissatisfaction with her life and her husband?

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

Symbolism is one way for an author to convey big ideas and concepts to readers.

Choose two significant symbols and trace and analyze their appearance in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Are these universal symbols that would have the same meaning in any culture? What other symbols could portray the same idea? Why do you think Desai chooses the symbols he does? Consider symbols such as the guava tree, the monkey troupe, and the Hungry Hop boy, and Kulfi’s hunger.

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