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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. What does the narrator say is "a sort of intoxication" for Bakha (11)?
(a) Work.
(b) Women.
(c) The sun.
(d) British culture.

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

3. Why is Lakha so eager to talk to the town's families about when their daughters will get married?
(a) He is hoping to get extra work during the wedding festivities.
(b) He wants to find Bakha a wife.
(c) He is looking for a wife for himself.
(d) He looks forward to the scraps from the wedding feast.

4. What are the "jalebis" that Bakha buys in the market?
(a) A syrup-soaked fried dough.
(b) A flatbread layered with nuts and dried fruits.
(c) A type of Indian ice cream.
(d) A European-style hard candy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the walls of the houses of the outcastes made of?

2. What does Sohini first tell her brother the priest did to her?

3. What does Bakha do after he sits down in the alley where he has been unable to get any attention from the houses?

4. Where did Bakha get his British jacket and overcoat?

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

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