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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Pages 30-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the passage about the cheap nickel jewelry reveal about Bakha?
(a) His fascination with the English has ruined for him some of the things he loved as a child.
(b) His disinterest in Indian culture is a result of his outcaste status rather than his exposure to English culture.
(c) His poverty is the main thing that keeps him from dressing as he really wants to.
(d) He secretly admires the bright, cheerful manner in which many caste Hindus dress.

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

3. What aspect of Bakha's appearance surprises Charat Singh?
(a) His cleanliness.
(b) His sensitive face.
(c) His proud expression.
(d) His muscular form.

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

5. What animals does the man that Bakha bumps in the street repeatedly compare Bakha to?
(a) A monkey and a dog.
(b) A pig and a goat.
(c) A goat and a monkey.
(d) A dog and a pig.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Sohini first tell her brother the priest did to her?

4. On page 28, what does the narrator say prevails in the lives of the outcastes?

5. On page 9, what does the narrator compare Bakha's capacity for work to?

(see the answer key)

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