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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. When Bakha returns home, what does it seem to him his father has been doing all day?
(a) Grooming himself.
(b) Gambling with friends.
(c) Ruminating on his children's failings.
(d) Sleeping.

2. When Bakha gets home, where is he told that his brother has gone?
(a) To beg for food in the barracks.
(b) To Ram Charan's sister's wedding.
(c) To clean the latrines.
(d) To play hockey.

3. What does Sohini eventually admit to her brother the priest did to her?
(a) Grabbed her breasts.
(b) Made improper sexual suggestions.
(c) Threatened to get their father in trouble.
(d) Chastised her for not cleaning properly.

4. What does Charat Singh offer Bakha?
(a) A job in the cantonment.
(b) A handful of coins.
(c) A bag of sweets.
(d) A hockey stick.

5. What is Bakha's first response when he hears the priest cry out "Polluted, polluted, polluted" (50)?
(a) He tries to hide.
(b) He stands at the top of the steps and yells back.
(c) He runs down the steps.
(d) He freezes in terror.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the little boy refuse to come down into the alley to defecate?

2. What is the job of the young man who is interested in Sohini?

3. What habit of Indian people in this time period was the basis of a derogatory description used by the British soldiers?

4. What does the word "Pundit" mean (19)?

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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