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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Pages 30-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a tonga-wallah?
(a) A carriage driver.
(b) A delivery person.
(c) A jockey.
(d) A blacksmith.

2. What is the narrator referring to when he describes Bakha wanting to speak the "tish-mish, tish-mish" (30)?
(a) Hindu ritual chants and prayers.
(b) The language of Bakha's Muslim neighbors.
(c) The sounds of spoken English.
(d) A higher-status dialect of Hindi.

3. Why does Bakha not feel sad about his mother's death?
(a) He was so young when she died that he barely remembers her.
(b) She was even more cruelly abusive than his father.
(c) She was a part of a more old-fashioned world than the one he wants to live in.
(d) He knows that her life was miserable, and he is glad she is free of her suffering.

4. Why are Chota and Ram Charan eager for the babu's sons to be at the hockey game?
(a) They are excellent hockey players.
(b) The babu might come to the game to watch them play.
(c) The babu will send his sons with plenty of food for everyone.
(d) They own a number of hockey sticks.

5. What does Sohini eventually admit to her brother the priest did to her?
(a) Grabbed her breasts.
(b) Made improper sexual suggestions.
(c) Chastised her for not cleaning properly.
(d) Threatened to get their father in trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. What motivates the babu's son to agree to give Bakha lessons?

2. What does Sohini first tell her brother the priest did to her?

3. What British brand of cigarettes do Bakha and his friends smoke?

4. What did Lakha borrow money from Ganesh Nath, the bania, to pay for?

5. What is Gulabo's job?

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