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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event starts the fight between the two hockey teams?
(a) The players discover Chota's lie.
(b) Bakha scores a goal.
(c) Ram Charan insults another player.
(d) The babu's younger son insists on being the referee.

2. Why does Bakha feel glad that his friends are walking well ahead of him when they are heading to the heath?
(a) He wants to enjoy some solitude in nature.
(b) He does not want them to notice his sadness about the wedding.
(c) He is tired of being teased about his clothing.
(d) He is nervous about being accused of ritual pollution.

3. What does the word "Jernel" mean?
(a) Groom.
(b) General.
(c) Sweeper.
(d) Friend.

4. Why is Lakha so eager to talk to the town's families about when their daughters will get married?
(a) He looks forward to the scraps from the wedding feast.
(b) He is looking for a wife for himself.
(c) He is hoping to get extra work during the wedding festivities.
(d) He wants to find Bakha a wife.

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

6. How is Bakha feeling when he first arrives and surveys the happy wedding crowd?
(a) Afraid and self-conscious.
(b) Envious and angry.
(c) Tired and apathetic.
(d) Jovial and relaxed.

7. What point does Bakha take away from the story his father tells about when Bakha was gravely ill as a child?
(a) The caste system is designed to get rid of as many outcastes as possible.
(b) His mother is really the only one who genuinely loved Bakha.
(c) His father should have done more to try to help him.
(d) The upper caste doctor was initially willing to just let Bakha die.

8. What has Chota lied to the other players about?
(a) The source of their equipment.
(b) Ram Charan's mother.
(c) Chota's ability as a hockey player.
(d) Bakha's caste.

9. Why does Rakha feel safe from Bakha's criticism?
(a) He knows the Bakha is only teasing.
(b) Rakha is the elder brother.
(c) Rakha is stronger and bigger than Bakha.
(d) Their father favors him.

10. How does the narrator characterize Bakha's response to nature?
(a) It is spontaneous.
(b) It is exaggerated.
(c) It is artificial.
(d) It is superficial.

11. 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.

12. Why does Bakha decide it would be best not to let Ram Charan know about the hockey stick?
(a) Ram Charan might tease him about it and spoil the joy of the gift.
(b) Ram Charan might try to steal the stick for himself.
(c) Ram Charan might go to Charat Singh and ask for a similar hockey stick.
(d) Ram Charan might tell Lakha about how Bakha has spent the afternoon.

13. Whom does Bakha see working in the river on his way to Ram Charan's sister's wedding?
(a) Water-carriers.
(b) Boatmen.
(c) Washermen.
(d) Fishermen.

14. When Chota says that he does not want the babu's younger son to play in the game because he might get hurt, what devices are being employed?
(a) Foreshadowing and situational irony.
(b) Verbal irony and foreshadowing.
(c) Dramatic and verbal irony.
(d) Situational and dramatic irony.

15. What is Bakha trying to figure out when he is on his way to the kitchen and asks himself "Is it wet or dry?" (92)?
(a) Whether Charat Singh's hookah-smoking can be defiled by Bakha's touch.
(b) What type of food Charat Singh is sending him to fetch.
(c) Whether there is still water in the pan the sparrows drink from.
(d) Whether the dark line on the horizon looks like rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Bakha think that the hockey stick is "the best stick that had been manufactured in the world" (95)?

2. What sweet does Ram Charan bring from his sister's wedding to share with his friends?

3. What instruction does Charat Singh give Bakha about the hockey stick?

4. What caste does the cook assume Bakha is a member of?

5. What is implied by Bakha's feeling like a "giant" when he looks back at the outcastes' colony after fleeing his home?

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