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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 Rakha say he will kill Bakha for?
(a) Refusing to clean the latrines.
(b) The way Bakha speaks to him.
(c) Failing to protect his sister.
(d) Touching the broom.

2. What has Chota lied to the other players about?
(a) Bakha's caste.
(b) Chota's ability as a hockey player.
(c) The source of their equipment.
(d) Ram Charan's mother.

3. What is Chota's reaction to Bakha's new hockey stick?
(a) He does not understand why Bakha cares about it so much.
(b) He is fearful of the obligation it represents.
(c) He is pleased for his friend.
(d) He is filled with envy.

4. What is "Waris Shah's Hir and Ranjah," which Bakha longs to read?
(a) A book of history.
(b) A political treatise.
(c) A epic poem.
(d) An adventure novel.

5. What is Bakha trying to figure out when he is on his way to the kitchen and asks himself "Is it wet or dry?" (92)?
(a) Whether Charat Singh's hookah-smoking can be defiled by Bakha's touch.
(b) What type of food Charat Singh is sending him to fetch.
(c) Whether there is still water in the pan the sparrows drink from.
(d) Whether the dark line on the horizon looks like rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Bakha think that the hockey stick is "the best stick that had been manufactured in the world" (95)?

2. Why does Ram Charan remove his solar hat as the three friends walk back from the spring?

3. What did Bakha's uncle tell him when he first said that he wanted to be a "sahib" (30)?

4. What does Chota suggest Bakha distract himself from the woes of his morning with?

5. Who throws the rock that strikes the babu's younger son?

(see the answer key)

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