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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Pages 84-109.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is so soothing to Bakha about the smaller street, familiar to him since childhood, that he turns into when he leaves the crowded bazaar?
(a) The smell of spices from the spice merchants' shops.
(b) The sight of the English musical instruments.
(c) The feeling of the much cooler air against his skin.
(d) The sound of the children playing marbles.

2. What is Bakha staring at when he hears the man complaining that Bakha has bumped into him?
(a) The colorful clothing of a Peshawari fruit-seller.
(b) The huge advertising signs he cannot read.
(c) A woman sitting in a window.
(d) A page of the Daily Mail newspaper laying in the street.

3. Why does Ram Charan remove his solar hat as the three friends walk back from the spring?
(a) The sun has gone behind a cloud.
(b) His friends have been making fun of his strange outfit.
(c) He does not want Gulabo to catch him wearing it.
(d) He is uncomfortable wearing it in the glum silence.

4. What finally rouses Bakha from his bed at the beginning of the book?
(a) Thoughts of the importance of duty and hard work.
(b) Concern about where his brother has gone.
(c) A man complaining about the dirty latrines.
(d) His father's constant stream of verbal abuse.

5. What is Bakha's first response when he hears the priest cry out "Polluted, polluted, polluted" (50)?
(a) He freezes in terror.
(b) He stands at the top of the steps and yells back.
(c) He tries to hide.
(d) He runs down the steps.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Bakha think there is a chance that Ram Charan will have skipped his sister's wedding?

3. Why does Bahka not immediately apologize when he is accused of bumping the man in the street?

4. What is the image in the model temple at the base of the banyan tree?

5. Why does Rakha not come inside when their father has Sohini call him in?

(see the answer key)

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