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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 is Bakha staring at when he hears the man complaining that Bakha has bumped into him?
(a) The colorful clothing of a Peshawari fruit-seller.
(b) A woman sitting in a window.
(c) A page of the Daily Mail newspaper laying in the street.
(d) The huge advertising signs he cannot read.

2. What does the text refer to as the "noblest part of the body" (88)?
(a) The hands.
(b) The eyes.
(c) The heart.
(d) The head.

3. Why does Ram Charan remove his solar hat as the three friends walk back from the spring?
(a) His friends have been making fun of his strange outfit.
(b) He does not want Gulabo to catch him wearing it.
(c) He is uncomfortable wearing it in the glum silence.
(d) The sun has gone behind a cloud.

4. What does Bakha criticize his brother for when they are eating?
(a) Eating with dirty hands.
(b) Chewing with his mouth open.
(c) Being greedy with the food.
(d) Dropping food on the floor.

5. Why does Rakha feel safe from Bakha's criticism?
(a) Rakha is stronger and bigger than Bakha.
(b) Rakha is the elder brother.
(c) He knows the Bakha is only teasing.
(d) Their father favors him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sohini eventually admit to her brother the priest did to her?

2. Why does Bahka not immediately apologize when he is accused of bumping the man in the street?

3. What is implied by Bakha's feeling like a "giant" when he looks back at the outcastes' colony after fleeing his home?

4. What is the profession of the man that Ram Charan's sister is marrying?

5. After he is thrown out of his house, what irony does Bakha see in his father's behavior?

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