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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bakha tell Sohini he is going to do when he sends her home with his cleaning equipment?
(a) Go to get the family some food.
(b) Go back and make the priest admit what he did.
(c) Go make a complaint to the police.
(d) Go back and kill the priest.

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

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

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

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

6. What are outcastes such as Bakha supposed to do when they are walking near caste Hindus in town?
(a) Call out and announce their presence.
(b) Stand against a wall until the caste Hindu has passed.
(c) Turn away and keep still until the caste Hindu has passed.
(d) Bow and avert their eyes.

7. When Bakha is in the street where he has to step over the cow, what does he notice about his surroundings?
(a) His sister has not cleaned the street as she was supposed to have done.
(b) There are not as many people out as is usual for the time of day.
(c) The number of British goods for sale has increased since he was last in the town.
(d) Many of the shopkeepers are staring at him as if they have already heard gossip about him.

8. 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 intends to get them to do his work as well as their own.
(c) He needs them to escort Sohini to and from the temple.
(d) He wants to scold them for not doing their work properly.

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

10. 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 a part of a more old-fashioned world than the one he wants to live in.
(c) She was even more cruelly abusive than his father.
(d) He was so young when she died that he barely remembers her.

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

12. What is Bakha's first response when he hears the priest cry out "Polluted, polluted, polluted" (50)?
(a) He stands at the top of the steps and yells back.
(b) He freezes in terror.
(c) He tries to hide.
(d) He runs down the steps.

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

14. What has Bakha successfully taught himself from the book he bought?
(a) How to write.
(b) Basic math.
(c) How to read.
(d) The alphabet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of all of the cloths in the market, which is Bakha most drawn to?

2. What is Gulabo's job?

3. Why do the outcastes gather in a crowd at the well?

4. What does context suggest is the correct interpretation of the narrator's description of the temple's "florid exuberance" (46)?

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

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