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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the image in the model temple at the base of the banyan tree?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A monkey.
(c) A snake.
(d) A tiger.

2. What does the term "Jemandar" mean (3)?
(a) To argue a point just for the fun of argument.
(b) Foreman, leader of a crew of workers.
(c) A state of ritual impurity.
(d) It is a term of respect for someone of a higher caste.

3. Why are Chota and Ram Charan eager for the babu's sons to be at the hockey game?
(a) The babu will send his sons with plenty of food for everyone.
(b) They are excellent hockey players.
(c) They own a number of hockey sticks.
(d) The babu might come to the game to watch them play.

4. What word does Bakha use to refer to British soldiers?
(a) Tommies.
(b) Redcoats.
(c) Pongos.
(d) Squaddies.

5. What is a "cantonment" (3)?
(a) A palace for minor royalty.
(b) A subdivision of territory.
(c) Land devoted to agriculture.
(d) A military or police headquarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Charat Singh's offer "called forth" in Bakha (10)?

2. What is the priest's real motivation in serving Sohini first?

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

4. On page 9, what does the narrator compare Bakha's capacity for work to?

5. What did Lakha borrow money from Ganesh Nath, the bania, to pay for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bakha's morning before he leaves his family's house.

2. What is the "fashun" that Bakha and his friends adhere to, and why do they do it? (4)

3. What seems ironic to Bakha when he thinks about the reason that schools will not admit outcaste students?

4. What is insincere about Bakha's offer to rub his father's side with oil?

5. What rhetorical purpose is served by the long passage in which Pundit Kali Nath thinks about all of the foods he has recently eaten?

6. Describe Bakha's initial reaction to the man who accuses him of bumping him on the street.

7. What mixture of feelings does Bakha have about Sohini as they make their way home from the temple?

8. What work do Bakha and his family do?

9. On his way into town, how does Bakha light his cigarette, and what does this incident demonstrate about how his caste status impacts his beliefs about himself?

10. What altercation does Sohini get into at the well, and why does it happen?

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