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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Pages 3-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word "Pundit" mean (19)?
(a) A merchant.
(b) A high-caste person.
(c) A scholar.
(d) A religious leader.

2. On page 6, what do the outcaste boys start calling Bakha after he starts wearing British clothing?
(a) "Imitation sahib."
(b) "Sergeant Sweeper."
(c) "Bakha-Britain."
(d) "O bey brother-in-law."

3. What does the narrator say that the word "sahib" refers to (5)?
(a) "Companions."
(b) "Hindu sepoys."
(c) "Modern people."
(d) "Superior people."

4. On page 9, what does the narrator compare Bakha's capacity for work to?
(a) The shining of glass.
(b) The burning of a fire.
(c) Wind shaking the leaves.
(d) Water flowing from a stream.

5. How old is Bakha?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 17.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Untouchable?

2. On page 28, what does the narrator say prevails in the lives of the outcastes?

3. Where did Bakha acquire a taste for the Western way of life?

4. What does Charat Singh offer Bakha?

5. What habit of the British soldiers did Bakha find "Disgraceful" (12)?

(see the answer key)

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