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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. When Bakha returns home, what does it seem to him his father has been doing all day?
(a) Ruminating on his children's failings.
(b) Gambling with friends.
(c) Grooming himself.
(d) Sleeping.

2. What does Charat Singh send Bakha to fetch in the kitchen?
(a) A towel.
(b) Coals.
(c) Food.
(d) Tea.

3. What does the text refer to as the "noblest part of the body" (88)?
(a) The heart.
(b) The head.
(c) The hands.
(d) The eyes.

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

5. How is Bakha feeling when he first arrives and surveys the happy wedding crowd?
(a) Tired and apathetic.
(b) Afraid and self-conscious.
(c) Envious and angry.
(d) Jovial and relaxed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rakha feel safe from Bakha's criticism?

2. When Rakha taunts Bakha and refuses to give up the broom, how does Bakha feel?

3. How does Chota wake Bakha when Bakha falls asleep by the spring?

4. Why does Bakha think there is a chance that Ram Charan will have skipped his sister's wedding?

5. Why does Bakha feel glad that his friends are walking well ahead of him when they are heading to the heath?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Bakha is lying under a tree outside the barracks, what does he decide about taking so much time away from work?

2. Even before Charat Singh gives Bakha the hockey stick, what does he do that causes Bakha to feel very honored?

3. How does Bakha react to Chota's suggestion that the friends "catch hold" of the priest one day (84)?

4. What are the stories about how the hat came to hang on the cantonment wall?

5. What game does Bakha remember playing with his friends and Ram Charan's sister when they were young children?

6. What is the significance of Bakha asking Ram Charan to toss him a sugar plum instead of taking it himself?

7. Describe Bakha's memory of seeing Ram Charan's sister on her way home from the brook one morning before dawn.

8. What is the function of the passage of description of Bakha's family's outdoor kitchen?

9. What does Bakha tell himself about his decision to go to Ram Charan's sister's wedding, and what are his true motives?

10. What causes Bakha to tell his father about his morning's misadventures, and how does his father react?

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