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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 is unfair about the babu's wife's reaction to her son's injury?
(a) She assumes that Bakha hurt the child on purpose.
(b) She assumes that Bakha is the one who hurt him.
(c) She demands that Bakha be struck with a rock in return.
(d) She demands that Bakha be arrested for assault.

2. What does the narrator say is "a sort of intoxication" for Bakha (11)?
(a) The sun.
(b) British culture.
(c) Work.
(d) Women.

3. What tactic of Gandhi's does Bakha find confusing?
(a) Non-cooperation.
(b) Withholding tax payments.
(c) Fasting.
(d) Protest marches.

4. What does Bakha do after he sits down in the alley where he has been unable to get any attention from the houses?
(a) He begins to weep.
(b) He plots revenge against the priest.
(c) He prays.
(d) He falls asleep.

5. How many times does Bakha try to mount the temple steps before he has the courage to get all the way to the top step?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bakha criticize his brother for when they are eating?

2. What is the peasant concerned about being kept up after the British leave India?

3. What are outcastes such as Bakha supposed to do when they are walking near caste Hindus in town?

4. Of all of the cloths in the market, which is Bakha most drawn to?

5. What does "Mephistophelean" mean when the narrator says that there is something "Mephistophelean" about Gandhi's chin (125)?

(see the answer key)

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