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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 the first woman in the alley houses repeatedly tell Bakha?
(a) She hopes that he will die.
(b) She will call the police if he does not leave.
(c) She wishes she had more to offer him.
(d) She is sorry about the death of his mother.

2. What does the narrator say prevents the crowd from accepting Bakha's apology?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Hysteria.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Contempt.

3. What is Lakha's purpose in having Sohini call for her brothers?
(a) He wants to ask them about Lachman's intentions toward Sohini.
(b) He wants to scold them for not doing their work properly.
(c) He needs them to escort Sohini to and from the temple.
(d) He intends to get them to do his work as well as their own.

4. After he is thrown out of his house, what irony does Bakha see in his father's behavior?
(a) His father is really the lazy one, and yet Bakha is the one who has been turned out of the house.
(b) All Bakha wanted to do was get the broom and go clean, as his father wanted him to do.
(c) His father is cruel to him, yet this is also the same father who begged for medicine for him.
(d) His father has punished him by throwing him out, but Bakha does not want to be at home, anyway.

5. Who draws Bakha's attention when he is near the train station?
(a) A leper begging at the roadside.
(b) A small boy teasing a cat.
(c) A British woman.
(d) The railway guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What British brand of cigarettes do Bakha and his friends smoke?

2. What does Charat Singh offer Bakha?

3. Where has Gandhi been just before making his appearance in Bulashah?

4. Who throws the rock that strikes the babu's younger son?

5. How does Bakha feel about Charat Singh, most of the time?

(see the answer key)

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