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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 Bakha buy from the betel-leaf shop?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Matches.
(d) Tea.

2. What does context suggest is the correct interpretation of the narrator's description of the temple's "florid exuberance" (46)?
(a) It is covered in carved flowers.
(b) It is a bright reddish color.
(c) It is extremely ornate.
(d) It is composed of many separate sections.

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

4. What is the image in the model temple at the base of the banyan tree?
(a) A snake.
(b) A monkey.
(c) An elephant.
(d) A tiger.

5. Why does Bakha decide that stealing the solar topee is not a good plan?
(a) He will never become Jemadar of the sweepers if he has a reputation as a thief.
(b) He is afraid of his father hearing that he is a thief.
(c) Stealing is morally wrong.
(d) He would never be able to wear it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What finally rouses Bakha from his bed at the beginning of the book?

2. What tactic of Gandhi's does Bakha find confusing?

3. What event starts the fight between the two hockey teams?

4. What does Bakha do when he is finally at the top of the temple steps?

5. What does the man paraphrasing the Tribune article say is the goal of Western civilization?

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