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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 is Bakha trying to figure out when he is on his way to the kitchen and asks himself "Is it wet or dry?" (92)?
(a) Whether Charat Singh's hookah-smoking can be defiled by Bakha's touch.
(b) What type of food Charat Singh is sending him to fetch.
(c) Whether the dark line on the horizon looks like rain.
(d) Whether there is still water in the pan the sparrows drink from.

2. On page 28, what does the narrator say prevails in the lives of the outcastes?
(a) Faith.
(b) Suffering.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Silence.

3. Who are the "pale-white ghosts, ghouls and hobgoblins" mentioned on page 87?
(a) The sadhus.
(b) The sepoys.
(c) The sahibs.
(d) Kings and queens.

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

5. What does the narrator note is ironic about Charat Singh's exclamation "Oh, work, work, blow work!" (91)?
(a) He is well-known as a hard worker.
(b) He has just scolded the cook for this same attitude.
(c) He was angry at Bakha that morning for neglecting his work.
(d) Charat Singh's life does not really include much hard work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "Jernel" mean?

2. When Rakha taunts Bakha and refuses to give up the broom, how does Bakha feel?

3. Why does Bakha not feel sad about his mother's death?

4. What is Chota's reaction to Bakha's new hockey stick?

5. What do all of the stories about the solar topee have in common?

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