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

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

3. Who are the few men who come to the latrines wearing long white tunics and loose trousers?
(a) Fakirs.
(b) Sepoys.
(c) Priests.
(d) Muslims.

4. What does the narrator say prevents the crowd from accepting Bakha's apology?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Sadism.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Hysteria.

5. Which character are people speaking of when they say that he is "a bit superior to his job" (9)?
(a) Bakha.
(b) Lakha.
(c) Charat Singh.
(d) Rakha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bakha see in the street outside of town that he reminds himself his mother told him was good luck to see?

2. What animals does the man that Bakha bumps in the street repeatedly compare Bakha to?

3. What is the job of the young man who is interested in Sohini?

4. Why do the outcastes gather in a crowd at the well?

5. What is a "sepoy" (5)?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. Describe the dynamic between Bakha and his friends.

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

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

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

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