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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 street urchin accuse Bakha of?
(a) Theft.
(b) Insulting a god.
(c) Improper behavior with a woman.
(d) Beating him.

2. Why does Bakha not feel sad about his mother's death?
(a) He knows that her life was miserable, and he is glad she is free of her suffering.
(b) She was even more cruelly abusive than his father.
(c) She was a part of a more old-fashioned world than the one he wants to live in.
(d) He was so young when she died that he barely remembers her.

3. What does Rakha say he will kill Bakha for?
(a) Failing to protect his sister.
(b) Refusing to clean the latrines.
(c) The way Bakha speaks to him.
(d) Touching the broom.

4. What does Hutchinson spend most of the walk to the Church doing?
(a) Listening to Bakha.
(b) Criticizing Hinduism.
(c) Singing religious songs.
(d) Reading from the Bible.

5. How much money was Gulabo given for her daughter's hand in marriage?
(a) 200 rupees.
(b) 2,000 rupees.
(c) 50 rupees.
(d) 1,000 rupees.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the text refer to as the "noblest part of the body" (88)?

3. On page 28, what does the narrator say prevails in the lives of the outcastes?

4. What is a tonga-wallah?

5. What does Bakha discover about the stick that Charat Singh gave the babu's younger son?

(see the answer key)

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