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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Pages 57-83.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the profession of the man that Ram Charan's sister is marrying?
(a) Water carrier.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Leather worker.
(d) Washerman.

2. When Bakha returns home, what does it seem to him his father has been doing all day?
(a) Gambling with friends.
(b) Ruminating on his children's failings.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Grooming himself.

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

4. What does Bakha think Ram Charan's sister looked like as a child?
(a) A monkey.
(b) An owl.
(c) A goat.
(d) A wild dog.

5. What is a "cantonment" (3)?
(a) A military or police headquarters.
(b) A palace for minor royalty.
(c) A subdivision of territory.
(d) Land devoted to agriculture.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What point does Bakha take away from the story his father tells about when Bakha was gravely ill as a child?

3. Why does Bahka not immediately apologize when he is accused of bumping the man in the street?

4. 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?

5. What is a "sepoy" (5)?

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