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

2. What caste does the cook assume Bakha is a member of?
(a) Washermen.
(b) Water-carriers.
(c) Sweepers.
(d) Grass-cutters.

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

4. What event starts the fight between the two hockey teams?
(a) The players discover Chota's lie.
(b) Bakha scores a goal.
(c) Ram Charan insults another player.
(d) The babu's younger son insists on being the referee.

5. What does his trip to the kitchen cause Bakha to remember?
(a) His dream about the little girl.
(b) The food his mother used to cook.
(c) Being yelled at by a cook when he was small.
(d) The guests at Ram Charan's sister's wedding.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator note is ironic about Charat Singh's exclamation "Oh, work, work, blow work!" (91)?

3. Why does Bakha think that it is unlikely he will be able to lie to his father about the morning's events?

4. What is the profession of the man that Ram Charan's sister is marrying?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What stories about Charat Singh's hockey career does Bakha think about while he is waiting for Charat Singh to appear?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why do all of the sepoys and local children long to own the solar topee?

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

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

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