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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 unfair about the babu's wife's reaction to her son's injury?
(a) She assumes that Bakha is the one who hurt him.
(b) She assumes that Bakha hurt the child on purpose.
(c) She demands that Bakha be struck with a rock in return.
(d) She demands that Bakha be arrested for assault.

2. How does the narrator characterize Bakha's response to nature?
(a) It is exaggerated.
(b) It is spontaneous.
(c) It is superficial.
(d) It is artificial.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Bakha think that his father will not object to his leaving if he says he is going to see Ram Charan's sister's wedding?

3. Who is Colonel Hutchinson?

4. What caste does the cook assume Bakha is a member of?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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