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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 does Bakha do when he is finally at the top of the temple steps?
(a) Lies down and peers under the door.
(b) Sneaks quietly inside the temple.
(c) Balances on his toes and looks through a window.
(d) Stands at the edge where he can see through a crack in the wall.

2. What does Bakha tell Sohini he is going to do when he sends her home with his cleaning equipment?
(a) Go to get the family some food.
(b) Go back and make the priest admit what he did.
(c) Go back and kill the priest.
(d) Go make a complaint to the police.

3. What point does Bakha take away from the story his father tells about when Bakha was gravely ill as a child?
(a) The caste system is designed to get rid of as many outcastes as possible.
(b) The upper caste doctor was initially willing to just let Bakha die.
(c) His mother is really the only one who genuinely loved Bakha.
(d) His father should have done more to try to help him.

4. Which character are people speaking of when they say that he is "a bit superior to his job" (9)?
(a) Lakha.
(b) Rakha.
(c) Bakha.
(d) Charat Singh.

5. What does Bakha stop to do on his way home from the hockey game?
(a) See more of Ram Charan's sister's wedding.
(b) Beg for water at the well.
(c) Hide his stick.
(d) Retrieve the sugar plums he hid for later.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator referring to when he describes Bakha wanting to speak the "tish-mish, tish-mish" (30)?

2. What does Charat Singh have that is "mounted with gold" (91)?

3. What does Bakha's family's diet seem to mostly consist of?

4. What does Charat Singh send Bakha to fetch in the kitchen?

5. Why does Ram Charan remove his solar hat as the three friends walk back from the spring?

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