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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 the little boy refuse to come down into the alley to defecate?
(a) He is shy about doing it in public.
(b) He thinks it is a rude way to treat Bakha.
(c) He wants his mother to bribe him with sweets.
(d) He does not want to be near an outcaste.

2. How does Chota wake Bakha when Bakha falls asleep by the spring?
(a) He tosses pebbles at him.
(b) He tickles his nose.
(c) He throws water on him.
(d) He places a sweet on Bakha's lips.

3. What does the narrator note is ironic about Charat Singh's exclamation "Oh, work, work, blow work!" (91)?
(a) He is well-known as a hard worker.
(b) Charat Singh's life does not really include much hard work.
(c) He was angry at Bakha that morning for neglecting his work.
(d) He has just scolded the cook for this same attitude.

4. 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.

5. What has Chota lied to the other players about?
(a) Chota's ability as a hockey player.
(b) Ram Charan's mother.
(c) The source of their equipment.
(d) Bakha's caste.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Bakha feel sympathy for the younger of the babu's sons?

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 is a "sadhu"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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