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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. Why does Bakha decide it would be best not to let Ram Charan know about the hockey stick?
(a) Ram Charan might try to steal the stick for himself.
(b) Ram Charan might tell Lakha about how Bakha has spent the afternoon.
(c) Ram Charan might go to Charat Singh and ask for a similar hockey stick.
(d) Ram Charan might tease him about it and spoil the joy of the gift.

2. Why does Ram Charan remove his solar hat as the three friends walk back from the spring?
(a) His friends have been making fun of his strange outfit.
(b) The sun has gone behind a cloud.
(c) He is uncomfortable wearing it in the glum silence.
(d) He does not want Gulabo to catch him wearing it.

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

4. What does Bakha stop to do on his way home from the hockey game?
(a) Retrieve the sugar plums he hid for later.
(b) Beg for water at the well.
(c) Hide his stick.
(d) See more of Ram Charan's sister's wedding.

5. How much money was Gulabo given for her daughter's hand in marriage?
(a) 1,000 rupees.
(b) 50 rupees.
(c) 2,000 rupees.
(d) 200 rupees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Chota's reaction to Bakha's new hockey stick?

2. What do Bakha's thoughts about Emperor Jehangir's invention reveal?

3. Who is Colonel Hutchinson?

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

5. What does Rakha say he will kill Bakha for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do the sweepers all spend so much time outdoors, even when they are not working?

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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