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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 is Lakha's point in telling the story about when Bakha was gravely ill as a child?

2. What is the profession of the man that Ram Charan's sister is marrying?

3. How much money was Gulabo given for her daughter's hand in marriage?

4. What is the "pleasantest surprise" Bakha receives when he nears Ram Charan's home (77)?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe some of the common elements in Bakha's dreams when he falls asleep in the alley.

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

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

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

6. What game does Bakha remember playing with his friends and Ram Charan's sister when they were young children?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that analyzes Untouchable's message about hope. Consider the characterization of Bakha as well as the novel's action. Give special consideration to the novel's final pages. Support your assertions with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Do some biographical research on Mulk Raj Anand. Use this biographical information to write an essay that connects the author's personal life with his concerns in Untouchable. Consider both his motivations and the perspective that he brings to the text. Use evidence from Untouchable as well as from your research to support your assertions. Cite all sources in MLA format.

Essay Topic 3

In what sense does the ending of Untouchable become almost a persuasive essay that evaluates three potential solutions to the problems faced by India's "untouchables"? Write an essay that discusses the solutions being offered and the ways that comic elements in the scene with Colonel Hutchinson, Bakha's reactions to Gandhi, and the emphasis on dialogue over narrative in the novel's final pages function as elements of evaluation of the three proposed solutions. Offer both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text in support of your claims.

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