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

2. What motivates the babu's son to agree to give Bakha lessons?
(a) Pride.
(b) Money.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Fear.

3. Where did Bakha get his British jacket and overcoat?
(a) He found them in a rubbish bin.
(b) He bought them with his tip money.
(c) They were prizes he won for playing hockey.
(d) They were a gift from his uncle.

4. What is the priest's real motivation in serving Sohini first?
(a) He is intentionally slighting Gulabo.
(b) He is physically attracted to her.
(c) He admires her piety and humility.
(d) He takes pity on her low status.

5. What does Bakha do when he is finally at the top of the temple steps?
(a) Lies down and peers under the door.
(b) Stands at the edge where he can see through a crack in the wall.
(c) Balances on his toes and looks through a window.
(d) Sneaks quietly inside the temple.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the few men who come to the latrines wearing long white tunics and loose trousers?

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

3. What is Lakha's purpose in having Sohini call for her brothers?

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

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

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