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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Pages 110-139.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lakha borrow money from Ganesh Nath, the bania, to pay for?
(a) Sweeping equipment.
(b) A cow.
(c) His wife's funeral.
(d) His daughter's dowry.

2. How is Bakha feeling when he first arrives and surveys the happy wedding crowd?
(a) Envious and angry.
(b) Jovial and relaxed.
(c) Afraid and self-conscious.
(d) Tired and apathetic.

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

4. What fear does the peasant express related to the Panchayat?
(a) They are heavily influenced by Britain.
(b) Many exclude peasants.
(c) Many are corrupt.
(d) They are expensive to maintain.

5. Who are the few men who come to the latrines wearing long white tunics and loose trousers?
(a) Priests.
(b) Fakirs.
(c) Muslims.
(d) Sepoys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bakha buy from the betel-leaf shop?

2. What advice does the second woman in the alley houses offer Bakha?

3. What is implied by Bakha's feeling like a "giant" when he looks back at the outcastes' colony after fleeing his home?

4. What is the profession of the man that Ram Charan's sister is marrying?

5. What is "Waris Shah's Hir and Ranjah," which Bakha longs to read?

(see the answer key)

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