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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Pages 57-83.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the "jalebis" that Bakha buys in the market?
(a) A type of Indian ice cream.
(b) A European-style hard candy.
(c) A flatbread layered with nuts and dried fruits.
(d) A syrup-soaked fried dough.

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

3. What are outcastes such as Bakha supposed to do when they are walking near caste Hindus in town?
(a) Stand against a wall until the caste Hindu has passed.
(b) Turn away and keep still until the caste Hindu has passed.
(c) Call out and announce their presence.
(d) Bow and avert their eyes.

4. Why does Bakha not feel sad about his mother's death?
(a) He was so young when she died that he barely remembers her.
(b) She was even more cruelly abusive than his father.
(c) He knows that her life was miserable, and he is glad she is free of her suffering.
(d) She was a part of a more old-fashioned world than the one he wants to live in.

5. What are the walls of the houses of the outcastes made of?
(a) Sheets of tin.
(b) Stone.
(c) Scavenged lumber.
(d) Mud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Untouchable?

2. How old is Bakha?

3. What does context suggest is the correct interpretation of the narrator's description of the temple's "florid exuberance" (46)?

4. Why are Chota and Ram Charan eager for the babu's sons to be at the hockey game?

5. After he is finally free of the crowd in the street, what does Bakha suddenly realize is at the root of all of his problems?

(see the answer key)

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