View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The colorful clothing of a Peshawari fruit-seller.
(c) The huge advertising signs he cannot read.
(d) A page of the Daily Mail newspaper laying in the street.

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

3. What does the narrator say prevents the crowd from accepting Bakha's apology?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Sadism.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Hysteria.

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

5. On page 6, what do the outcaste boys start calling Bakha after he starts wearing British clothing?
(a) "Sergeant Sweeper."
(b) "Imitation sahib."
(c) "Bakha-Britain."
(d) "O bey brother-in-law."

Short Answer Questions

1. What finally rouses Bakha from his bed at the beginning of the book?

2. What animals does the man that Bakha bumps in the street repeatedly compare Bakha to?

3. What does Bakha tell Sohini he is going to do when he sends her home with his cleaning equipment?

4. What does the narrator say is "a sort of intoxication" for Bakha (11)?

5. Why did a rich merchant once give Lakha a buffalo cow?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 352 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample