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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 are the walls of the houses of the outcastes made of?
(a) Mud.
(b) Sheets of tin.
(c) Stone.
(d) Scavenged lumber.

2. What motivates the babu's son to agree to give Bakha lessons?
(a) Fear.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Pride.
(d) Money.

3. Who is the author of Untouchable?
(a) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.
(b) R. K. Narayan.
(c) Mulk Raj Anand.
(d) Khushwant Singh.

4. 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 a part of a more old-fashioned world than the one he wants to live in.
(c) She was even more cruelly abusive than his father.
(d) He knows that her life was miserable, and he is glad she is free of her suffering.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animals does the man that Bakha bumps in the street repeatedly compare Bakha to?

2. What is the job of the young man who is interested in Sohini?

3. What does the passage about the cheap nickel jewelry reveal about Bakha?

4. What did Bakha's uncle tell him when he first said that he wanted to be a "sahib" (30)?

5. What is Bakha's first response when he hears the priest cry out "Polluted, polluted, polluted" (50)?

(see the answer key)

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