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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 the dark line on the horizon looks like rain.
(d) Whether there is still water in the pan the sparrows drink from.

3. What word does Colonel Hutchinson object to Bakha using to describe him?
(a) Padre.
(b) Havildar.
(c) Sahib.
(d) Hakim.

4. Where do Chota and Ram Charan go before the hockey game?
(a) To finish their work.
(b) With Bakha to the barracks.
(c) Back to their homes.
(d) To look for the priest.

5. Why does Bakha think that his father will not object to his leaving if he says he is going to see Ram Charan's sister's wedding?
(a) He knows that his father will be interested in getting some of the wedding sweets.
(b) He knows that his father loves everything to do with weddings and celebrations.
(c) He knows that his father is hoping that Bakha himself will marry soon.
(d) He knows that his father is very impressed with Ram Charan's family.

6. What caste does the cook assume Bakha is a member of?
(a) Sweepers.
(b) Grass-cutters.
(c) Water-carriers.
(d) Washermen.

7. What does the first woman in the alley houses repeatedly tell Bakha?
(a) She will call the police if he does not leave.
(b) She is sorry about the death of his mother.
(c) She wishes she had more to offer him.
(d) She hopes that he will die.

8. What does Bakha stop to do on his way home from the hockey game?
(a) Beg for water at the well.
(b) See more of Ram Charan's sister's wedding.
(c) Retrieve the sugar plums he hid for later.
(d) Hide his stick.

9. What has Gulabo accused Bakha of, in the past?
(a) Having an inappropriate interest in her daughter.
(b) Encouraging Ram Charan to neglect his duties.
(c) Stealing pieces of clothing from their customers' washing.
(d) Defiling her home by coming too near it.

10. What does Bakha do after he sits down in the alley where he has been unable to get any attention from the houses?
(a) He begins to weep.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) He plots revenge against the priest.
(d) He prays.

11. After he is thrown out of his house, what irony does Bakha see in his father's behavior?
(a) All Bakha wanted to do was get the broom and go clean, as his father wanted him to do.
(b) His father is really the lazy one, and yet Bakha is the one who has been turned out of the house.
(c) His father has punished him by throwing him out, but Bakha does not want to be at home, anyway.
(d) His father is cruel to him, yet this is also the same father who begged for medicine for him.

12. What does Chota suggest Bakha distract himself from the woes of his morning with?
(a) Hockey.
(b) Work.
(c) Wedding sweets.
(d) Planning revenge against the priest.

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

14. What is implied by Bakha's feeling like a "giant" when he looks back at the outcastes' colony after fleeing his home?
(a) Bakha's physical size is yet another thing that separates him from the other outcastes.
(b) There is something superior about Bakha's perspective, compared to that of the others in the colony.
(c) Bakha's misadventures are a source of danger to the outcastes living in the colony.
(d) The moment has finally come when Bakha will stand up for himself against the other outcastes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Lakha use to address the doctor in his story?

2. What emotion does Bakha struggle with as his father tells the story of the time he was so ill as a child?

3. What is the "pleasantest surprise" Bakha receives when he nears Ram Charan's home (77)?

4. Why does Bakha decide it would be best not to let Ram Charan know about the hockey stick?

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

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