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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. Where did Bakha acquire a taste for the Western way of life?
(a) Traveling with his uncle.
(b) At his British-run school.
(c) Working in a British barracks.
(d) Playing hockey in other towns.

2. When the priest claims to have been "defiled by contact," what does Bakha assume (51)?
(a) He must have touched the priest on his way past him.
(b) There must be a third, as yet unseen, outcaste nearby.
(c) His sister must have touched the priest.
(d) The priest is lying.

3. What does Bakha tell Sohini he is going to do when he sends her home with his cleaning equipment?
(a) Go to get the family some food.
(b) Go make a complaint to the police.
(c) Go back and kill the priest.
(d) Go back and make the priest admit what he did.

4. On page 9, what does the narrator compare Bakha's capacity for work to?
(a) Water flowing from a stream.
(b) Wind shaking the leaves.
(c) The shining of glass.
(d) The burning of a fire.

5. How does Bakha feel when he observes the services taking place inside the temple?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Confused.
(c) Moved.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the image in the model temple at the base of the banyan tree?

3. What does the term "Jemandar" mean (3)?

4. What causes Bakha to pause before entering the town?

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

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