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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Pages 110-139.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does his trip to the kitchen cause Bakha to remember?
(a) The food his mother used to cook.
(b) His dream about the little girl.
(c) The guests at Ram Charan's sister's wedding.
(d) Being yelled at by a cook when he was small.

2. What does "Mephistophelean" mean when the narrator says that there is something "Mephistophelean" about Gandhi's chin (125)?
(a) Proud.
(b) Devilish.
(c) Stubborn.
(d) Weak.

3. What translation of the term "harijans" does the text offer, on page 124?
(a) "Men of God."
(b) "Children of the land."
(c) "Untouchables."
(d) "Outcastes."

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

5. How does the narrator characterize Bakha's response to nature?
(a) It is exaggerated.
(b) It is superficial.
(c) It is spontaneous.
(d) It is artificial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lakha borrow money from Ganesh Nath, the bania, to pay for?

2. What does the passage about the cheap nickel jewelry reveal about Bakha?

3. What does the narrator say that the word "sahib" refers to (5)?

4. Why does Bakha feel sympathy for the younger of the babu's sons?

5. What is the narrator referring to when he describes Bakha wanting to speak the "tish-mish, tish-mish" (30)?

(see the answer key)

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