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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Pages 84-109.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bakha think Ram Charan's sister looked like as a child?
(a) A wild dog.
(b) A goat.
(c) A monkey.
(d) An owl.

2. What word does Lakha use to address the doctor in his story?
(a) Hakim.
(b) Babu.
(c) Pandit.
(d) Sahib.

3. What is Lakha's point in telling the story about when Bakha was gravely ill as a child?
(a) He loves Bakha more than it seems like he does.
(b) He has done a lot for Bakha and deserves better treatment from his son.
(c) The upper castes can be good people who try to help the outcastes.
(d) The caste system can seem unfair, but eventually everyone gets what they deserve.

4. What does Bakha's family's diet seem to mostly consist of?
(a) Cabbage.
(b) Bread.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Rice.

5. Why does Bakha think that it is unlikely he will be able to lie to his father about the morning's events?
(a) Rakha will have already hurried home to tell his father.
(b) His father will have already asked Sohini why she is home early.
(c) Gossip spreads quickly in the outcastes' colony.
(d) The priest will have already sent a complaint to his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bakha gets home, where is he told that his brother has gone?

2. Where do Chota and Ram Charan go before the hockey game?

3. What does the text refer to as the "noblest part of the body" (88)?

4. What is so soothing to Bakha about the smaller street, familiar to him since childhood, that he turns into when he leaves the crowded bazaar?

5. When the priest claims to have been "defiled by contact," what does Bakha assume (51)?

(see the answer key)

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