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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bakha feel when he observes the services taking place inside the temple?
(a) Confused.
(b) Moved.
(c) Angry.
(d) Fearful.

2. What does the narrator say Charat Singh's offer "called forth" in Bakha (10)?
(a) Fear.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Hope.
(d) Servility.

3. What motivates the babu's son to agree to give Bakha lessons?
(a) Pride.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Money.
(d) Fear.

4. On page 9, what does the narrator compare Bakha's capacity for work to?
(a) The shining of glass.
(b) The burning of a fire.
(c) Wind shaking the leaves.
(d) Water flowing from a stream.

5. What is the job of the young man who is interested in Sohini?
(a) Water-carrier.
(b) Grass-cutter.
(c) Weaver.
(d) Soldier.

6. Who is the author of Untouchable?
(a) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.
(b) R. K. Narayan.
(c) Mulk Raj Anand.
(d) Khushwant Singh.

7. What does the priest tell Sohini he wants her to do?
(a) Tell her father that the temple courtyard needs more frequent cleaning.
(b) Clean the courtyard of his house at the temple.
(c) Consider devoting herself as a temple servant.
(d) Bring an offering to the temple goddess.

8. What does the word "Pundit" mean (19)?
(a) A high-caste person.
(b) A merchant.
(c) A scholar.
(d) A religious leader.

9. What is Gulabo's job?
(a) Leather tanner.
(b) Water-carrier.
(c) Washerwoman.
(d) Weaver.

10. What finally rouses Bakha from his bed at the beginning of the book?
(a) Thoughts of the importance of duty and hard work.
(b) Concern about where his brother has gone.
(c) A man complaining about the dirty latrines.
(d) His father's constant stream of verbal abuse.

11. What did Lakha borrow money from Ganesh Nath, the bania, to pay for?
(a) Sweeping equipment.
(b) His wife's funeral.
(c) A cow.
(d) His daughter's dowry.

12. What does Sohini eventually admit to her brother the priest did to her?
(a) Grabbed her breasts.
(b) Chastised her for not cleaning properly.
(c) Threatened to get their father in trouble.
(d) Made improper sexual suggestions.

13. What is Bakha staring at when he hears the man complaining that Bakha has bumped into him?
(a) The colorful clothing of a Peshawari fruit-seller.
(b) The huge advertising signs he cannot read.
(c) A woman sitting in a window.
(d) A page of the Daily Mail newspaper laying in the street.

14. Which character are people speaking of when they say that he is "a bit superior to his job" (9)?
(a) Rakha.
(b) Charat Singh.
(c) Lakha.
(d) Bakha.

15. What did Bakha's uncle tell him when he first said that he wanted to be a "sahib" (30)?
(a) That he would need to find another job.
(b) That it was impossible.
(c) That he would miss his family.
(d) That he would have to go to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gesture does Bakha continuously make in order to try to placate the man that he has bumped on the street?

2. What does the narrator say prevents the crowd from accepting Bakha's apology?

3. What is the image in the model temple at the base of the banyan tree?

4. What is a tonga-wallah?

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

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