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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Pages 84-109.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ram Charan remove his solar hat as the three friends walk back from the spring?
(a) His friends have been making fun of his strange outfit.
(b) He is uncomfortable wearing it in the glum silence.
(c) He does not want Gulabo to catch him wearing it.
(d) The sun has gone behind a cloud.

2. What do Bakha's thoughts about Emperor Jehangir's invention reveal?
(a) He is frustrated with the amount of time he has to spend waiting to get people's attention.
(b) He is smarter and more curious than he is generally given credit for.
(c) His awareness of the injustice in his world is growing rapidly.
(d) His fascination with modernity will always interfere with his ability to fit into his surroundings.

3. What habit of the British soldiers did Bakha find "Disgraceful" (12)?
(a) Singing while bathing.
(b) Hurrying naked toward their bathtubs.
(c) Touching their genitals while bathing.
(d) Bathing with their undergarments still on.

4. What is Bakha asking for when he shouts up at the houses from the street?
(a) Coins.
(b) Sweets.
(c) Water.
(d) Bread.

5. What did Lakha borrow money from Ganesh Nath, the bania, to pay for?
(a) A cow.
(b) His daughter's dowry.
(c) Sweeping equipment.
(d) His wife's funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Lakha so eager to talk to the town's families about when their daughters will get married?

2. What is ironic about Bakha's friends teasing him about his interest in "fashun" (26)?

3. What word does Colonel Hutchinson object to Bakha using to describe him?

4. What is unfair about the babu's wife's reaction to her son's injury?

5. After he is thrown out of his house, what irony does Bakha see in his father's behavior?

(see the answer key)

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