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

2. What does the priest tell Sohini he wants her to do?
(a) Bring an offering to the temple goddess.
(b) Consider devoting herself as a temple servant.
(c) Clean the courtyard of his house at the temple.
(d) Tell her father that the temple courtyard needs more frequent cleaning.

3. What does context suggest is the correct interpretation of the narrator's description of the temple's "florid exuberance" (46)?
(a) It is covered in carved flowers.
(b) It is composed of many separate sections.
(c) It is extremely ornate.
(d) It is a bright reddish color.

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

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. Why is the younger of the babu's sons so eager to get going during their conversation with Bakha and his friends?

2. What word does Bakha use to refer to British soldiers?

3. What is so soothing to Bakha about the smaller street, familiar to him since childhood, that he turns into when he leaves the crowded bazaar?

4. How old is Bakha?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the man that Bakha bumps into in the street so angry?

2. Describe Bakha's father.

3. What does the description of the town as Bakha enters it emphasize, and how does this foreshadow what will happen later, when Bakha bumps into someone?

4. Describe the dynamic between Bakha and his friends.

5. Describe the job that Bakha does after he has cleaned all of the latrines twice.

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

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

8. What work do Bakha and his family do?

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

10. What seeming contradictions does Bakha notice in the treatment of cows?

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