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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 Chota suggest Bakha distract himself from the woes of his morning with?
(a) Wedding sweets.
(b) Planning revenge against the priest.
(c) Hockey.
(d) Work.

2. What sweet does Ram Charan bring from his sister's wedding to share with his friends?
(a) Candied pumpkin.
(b) Modaks.
(c) Sugar plums.
(d) Laddus.

3. Why does Bakha feel sympathy for the younger of the babu's sons?
(a) He knows that the little boy gets into trouble for spending time with Bakha.
(b) He knows that the boy's older brother often neglects him.
(c) He knows how desperate the little boy is to play in the game.
(d) He knows that the babu favors his older son.

4. 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) His father will have already asked Sohini why she is home early.
(c) The priest will have already sent a complaint to his father.
(d) Rakha will have already hurried home to tell his father.

5. What does Bakha's family's diet seem to mostly consist of?
(a) Cabbage.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Rice.
(d) Bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Bakha feeling when he first arrives and surveys the happy wedding crowd?

2. What word does Lakha use to address the doctor in his story?

3. What do all of the stories about the solar topee have in common?

4. What does the first woman in the alley houses repeatedly tell Bakha?

5. Whom does Bakha see working in the river on his way to Ram Charan's sister's wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the younger of the babu's sons end up getting injured?

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

3. Even before Charat Singh gives Bakha the hockey stick, what does he do that causes Bakha to feel very honored?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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