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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 Charat Singh have that is "mounted with gold" (91)?
(a) False teeth.
(b) A hockey trophy.
(c) An ammunition belt.
(d) Eyeglasses.

2. Why does Bakha think that it is unlikely he will be able to lie to his father about the morning's events?
(a) His father will have already asked Sohini why she is home early.
(b) Rakha will have already hurried home to tell his father.
(c) The priest will have already sent a complaint to his father.
(d) Gossip spreads quickly in the outcastes' colony.

3. What does the word "Jernel" mean?
(a) Friend.
(b) General.
(c) Sweeper.
(d) Groom.

4. When Chota says that he does not want the babu's younger son to play in the game because he might get hurt, what devices are being employed?
(a) Foreshadowing and situational irony.
(b) Situational and dramatic irony.
(c) Dramatic and verbal irony.
(d) Verbal irony and foreshadowing.

5. What do both Bakha's earlier dreams and his experience at the wedding demonstrate about him?
(a) He enjoys the stimulation of being with a crowd.
(b) He is sometimes narrow-minded and judgmental.
(c) He depends on his friends to keep him grounded.
(d) He is emotionally responsive to music.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much money was Gulabo given for her daughter's hand in marriage?

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

4. What point does Bakha take away from the story his father tells about when Bakha was gravely ill as a child?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What characteristics of Rakha does the narrator stress in the description of him coming home from the barracks with food?

2. Despite his hunger, how does Bakha end up too nauseated to eat the food his brother brings home?

3. Describe some of the common elements in Bakha's dreams when he falls asleep in the alley.

4. How does the first woman in the alley houses treat Bakha and the sadhu very differently?

5. What puzzles Bakha about his having had the courage to ask a sentry for the solar topee when he was a child, and why does it puzzle him?

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

7. Although Bakha is honored by Charat Singh's actions, in what sense are they also condescending and dismissive of Bakha's humanity?

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

9. When Bakha is on his way to see Charat Singh about the hockey stick, what strange feeling does he have about the errand?

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

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