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

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

3. What does the narrator say that the word "sahib" refers to (5)?
(a) "Superior people."
(b) "Hindu sepoys."
(c) "Modern people."
(d) "Companions."

4. After he is finally free of the crowd in the street, what does Bakha suddenly realize is at the root of all of his problems?
(a) His lack of education.
(b) His father.
(c) His status as an "untouchable."
(d) His lack of religious knowledge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the passage about the cheap nickel jewelry reveal about Bakha?

2. What does the narrator say prevents the crowd from accepting Bakha's apology?

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

4. When Bakha is in the street where he has to step over the cow, what does he notice about his surroundings?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conditions in which Bakha's family lives.

2. What is implied by the narrator's description of how Bakha seems somehow allied with the fire?

3. How does Bakha feel as he enters the temple courtyard, and why does he have these feelings?

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

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

6. 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?

7. What work do Bakha and his family do?

8. How does the incident with the crowd in the street draw to a close, finally?

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

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

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