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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 is the title of Chapter 16 of Swami and Friends?
2. What does Mani pour over students as they leave school on the last day?
3. What does the cricket team name they choose, M.C.C. stand for?
4. Swami’s attachment to Somu, Sankar, and the Pea is referred to as purely what in Chapter 10?
5. Who is Swami always with once school vacation begins?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Swami relieved to find a protest outside of his school the day after Gauri Sankar’s arrest?
2. How does Swam’s headmaster react when Rajam tells him his father is the Police Superintendent?
3. What happens when Swami’s father searches for Swami at Malgudi Station in Chapter 16?
4. What does Swami become obsessed with obtaining while on vacation in Chapter 10 and what is it exactly?
5. What is Swami’s life like at Board School, which gets in the way of his cricket practice?
6. How does Swami’s doctor react when Swami asks him for a certificate to get him out of drill?
7. How do Mani, Rajam, and Swami go about ordering equipment for their new cricket team in Chapter 13?
8. How does the headmaster punish those students who did not attend school and joined the protest instead in Chapter 12?
9. What does Granny ask Swami to get for her and how does he react?
10. How does Swami react when his headmaster canes him for missing drill for a whole week?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Swami visits Infant Standards at Albert Mission School a couple of times. Analyze Swami’s feelings toward the children in the class and interactions with the Infant Standards class. How do these moments develop the overall theme of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast Swami’s relationship with Mani and Swami’s relationship with his father. Use direct examples from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Swami and his friends start a cricket team and it so happens that Swami has a talent for cricket, though his school gets in the way of his practice. Analyze the symbolic significance of Swami’s experience with cricket.
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