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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charat Singh offer Bakha?
(a) A bag of sweets.
(b) A hockey stick.
(c) A handful of coins.
(d) A job in the cantonment.

2. What does Bakha do when he is finally at the top of the temple steps?
(a) Sneaks quietly inside the temple.
(b) Stands at the edge where he can see through a crack in the wall.
(c) Lies down and peers under the door.
(d) Balances on his toes and looks through a window.

3. What aspect of Bakha's appearance surprises Charat Singh?
(a) His proud expression.
(b) His muscular form.
(c) His sensitive face.
(d) His cleanliness.

4. What does the passage about the cheap nickel jewelry reveal about Bakha?
(a) His poverty is the main thing that keeps him from dressing as he really wants to.
(b) He secretly admires the bright, cheerful manner in which many caste Hindus dress.
(c) His disinterest in Indian culture is a result of his outcaste status rather than his exposure to English culture.
(d) His fascination with the English has ruined for him some of the things he loved as a child.

5. How many times does Bakha try to mount the temple steps before he has the courage to get all the way to the top step?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

6. Why does Rakha not come inside when their father has Sohini call him in?
(a) He has gone to see the preparations for Ram Charan's sister's wedding.
(b) He is off somewhere playing games with his friends.
(c) He has gone to fetch kindling for the waste-burning fire.
(d) He is angry at Sohini and pretends not to hear her.

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

8. Why did a rich merchant once give Lakha a buffalo cow?
(a) It was a part of the merchant's daughter's wedding festivities.
(b) He was advised to do this because he wanted sons.
(c) His father had owed a debt to Lakha's father before both men died.
(d) He owed Lakha a year's back wages for sweeping at his home and shop.

9. What is the priest's real motivation in serving Sohini first?
(a) He admires her piety and humility.
(b) He is intentionally slighting Gulabo.
(c) He takes pity on her low status.
(d) He is physically attracted to her.

10. What gesture does Bakha continuously make in order to try to placate the man that he has bumped on the street?
(a) He bows to the man over and over.
(b) He kneels in the street.
(c) He joins his hands prayerfully.
(d) He covers his eyes with his hands.

11. What is "Waris Shah's Hir and Ranjah," which Bakha longs to read?
(a) A epic poem.
(b) A book of history.
(c) An adventure novel.
(d) A political treatise.

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

13. What is a "sepoy" (5)?
(a) A rag-seller.
(b) A temple priest.
(c) An Indian soldier.
(d) A town official.

14. 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 composed of many separate sections.
(c) It is extremely ornate.
(d) It is a bright reddish color.

15. What is ironic about Bakha's friends teasing him about his interest in "fashun" (26)?
(a) They do not even know what the word means.
(b) They share this interest.
(c) They are the ones who first encouraged his interest.
(d) They are not trying to be cruel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sohini first tell her brother the priest did to her?

2. What is so soothing to Bakha about the smaller street, familiar to him since childhood, that he turns into when he leaves the crowded bazaar?

3. Which character are people speaking of when they say that he is "a bit superior to his job" (9)?

4. Where did Bakha acquire a taste for the Western way of life?

5. What does the priest tell Sohini he wants her to do?

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