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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 gets home, where is he told that his brother has gone?
(a) To beg for food in the barracks.
(b) To play hockey.
(c) To clean the latrines.
(d) To Ram Charan's sister's wedding.

2. Why is Lakha so eager to talk to the town's families about when their daughters will get married?
(a) He wants to find Bakha a wife.
(b) He looks forward to the scraps from the wedding feast.
(c) He is hoping to get extra work during the wedding festivities.
(d) He is looking for a wife for himself.

3. What emotion does Bakha struggle with as his father tells the story of the time he was so ill as a child?
(a) Rage.
(b) Fear.
(c) Self-pity.
(d) Scorn.

4. 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) Sleeping.
(d) Grooming himself.

5. 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) Verbal irony and foreshadowing.
(b) Situational and dramatic irony.
(c) Foreshadowing and situational irony.
(d) Dramatic and verbal irony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bakha think Ram Charan's sister looked like as a child?

2. What is unfair about the babu's wife's reaction to her son's injury?

3. What does Bakha anticipate his father's reaction will be if he tells him about his day's problems?

4. What is Bakha asking for when he shouts up at the houses from the street?

5. How does the narrator characterize Bakha's response to nature?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What excuse does Bakha give for not bringing more food home, and how does his father's reply make him feel?

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

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

7. What surprises Bakha about the hockey stick Charat Singh gives him, and how does he react?

8. How does Chota react differently to Bakha's stories about the priest and the woman at the alley house?

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

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

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