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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Lakha borrow money from Ganesh Nath, the bania, to pay for?
2. What is Gulabo's job?
3. When the priest claims to have been "defiled by contact," what does Bakha assume (51)?
4. What has Bakha successfully taught himself from the book he bought?
5. What does Bakha tell Sohini he is going to do when he sends her home with his cleaning equipment?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the description of the town as Bakha enters it emphasize, and how does this foreshadow what will happen later, when Bakha bumps into someone?
2. Describe Bakha's father.
3. Describe the dynamic between Bakha and his friends.
4. Which habits of Indian people does Bakha find crude and unsophisticated?
5. What mixture of feelings does Bakha have about Sohini as they make their way home from the temple?
6. On his way into town, how does Bakha light his cigarette, and what does this incident demonstrate about how his caste status impacts his beliefs about himself?
7. What altercation does Sohini get into at the well, and why does it happen?
8. What is implied by the narrator's description of how Bakha seems somehow allied with the fire?
9. How does Bakha feel as he enters the temple courtyard, and why does he have these feelings?
10. Describe the conditions in which Bakha's family lives.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Do some research into contemporary Scheduled Caste writers and artists. Consider how they use art to portray Scheduled Caste people and their concerns. Then, compare these portrayals with that of Bakha in Untouchable. Does Anand's caste-status seem to matter in his ability to portray the experiences and interior life of a Scheduled Caste man? Write an essay in which you use evidence from Scheduled Caste art and literature (or academic writing on these topics) as well as from Anand's novel to argue about the authenticity of Untouchable's portrayal of the Scheduled Caste experience. Be sure to cite all sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that explores Anand's use of paradox and irony to convey messages about "cleanliness" and "purity." How does he employ the devices as he explores these themes, and what messages, specifically, is he trying to convey? Offer both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text in support of your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Now that you have finished Untouchable, you know that the novel's final section becomes much more explicit in its analysis of Hinduism. Write an essay in which you explicate the ideas about Hinduism discussed in the novel's final pages. Then, offer an analysis of the relationship between these ideas and the earlier parts of Bakha's story. Support your assertions with evidence from the text.
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