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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 is Bakha asking for when he shouts up at the houses from the street?
(a) Sweets.
(b) Bread.
(c) Coins.
(d) Water.

2. What do Bakha's thoughts about Emperor Jehangir's invention reveal?
(a) His fascination with modernity will always interfere with his ability to fit into his surroundings.
(b) His awareness of the injustice in his world is growing rapidly.
(c) He is frustrated with the amount of time he has to spend waiting to get people's attention.
(d) He is smarter and more curious than he is generally given credit for.

3. Whom does Bakha see working in the river on his way to Ram Charan's sister's wedding?
(a) Boatmen.
(b) Water-carriers.
(c) Fishermen.
(d) Washermen.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Colonel Hutchinson?

3. What does Chota suggest Bakha distract himself from the woes of his morning with?

4. What emotion does Bakha struggle with as his father tells the story of the time he was so ill as a child?

5. What makes Bakha think that the hockey stick is "the best stick that had been manufactured in the world" (95)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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