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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. Why does the little boy refuse to come down into the alley to defecate?
(a) He thinks it is a rude way to treat Bakha.
(b) He wants his mother to bribe him with sweets.
(c) He is shy about doing it in public.
(d) He does not want to be near an outcaste.

2. What motivates the babu's son to agree to give Bakha lessons?
(a) Money.
(b) Fear.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Pride.

3. 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?
(a) The sound of the children playing marbles.
(b) The feeling of the much cooler air against his skin.
(c) The smell of spices from the spice merchants' shops.
(d) The sight of the English musical instruments.

4. Why does Bakha decide that stealing the solar topee is not a good plan?
(a) Stealing is morally wrong.
(b) He would never be able to wear it.
(c) He is afraid of his father hearing that he is a thief.
(d) He will never become Jemadar of the sweepers if he has a reputation as a thief.

5. 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 page of the Daily Mail newspaper laying in the street.
(c) A woman sitting in a window.
(d) The huge advertising signs he cannot read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Chota's reaction to Bakha's new hockey stick?

2. What does the first woman in the alley houses repeatedly tell Bakha?

3. When Bakha is in the street where he has to step over the cow, what does he notice about his surroundings?

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

5. What point does Bakha take away from the story his father tells about when Bakha was gravely ill as a child?

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