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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

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 sight of the English musical instruments.
(b) The sound of the children playing marbles.
(c) The smell of spices from the spice merchants' shops.
(d) The feeling of the much cooler air against his skin.

2. What habit of the British soldiers did Bakha find "Disgraceful" (12)?
(a) Bathing with their undergarments still on.
(b) Singing while bathing.
(c) Hurrying naked toward their bathtubs.
(d) Touching their genitals while bathing.

3. What British brand of cigarettes do Bakha and his friends smoke?
(a) Weights and Navy.
(b) Red-Lamp.
(c) Old Gold.
(d) Lucky Strike.

4. What is the job of the young man who is interested in Sohini?
(a) Weaver.
(b) Water-carrier.
(c) Soldier.
(d) Grass-cutter.

5. 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) He knows that her life was miserable, and he is glad she is free of her suffering.
(d) She was even more cruelly abusive than his father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the priest inside the temple do to indicate the beginning of services?

3. What is a tonga-wallah?

4. After he is finally free of the crowd in the street, what does Bakha suddenly realize is at the root of all of his problems?

5. What aspect of Bakha's appearance surprises Charat Singh?

Short Essay Questions

1. What seems ironic to Bakha when he thinks about the reason that schools will not admit outcaste students?

2. Describe Bakha's father.

3. Describe Bakha's morning before he leaves his family's house.

4. Describe the job that Bakha does after he has cleaned all of the latrines twice.

5. When Bakha has the urge to run away from the man yelling at him in the street, why does he feel he cannot run?

6. Describe the dynamic between Bakha and his friends.

7. On his way into town, how does Bakha light his cigarette, and what does this incident demonstrate about how his caste status impacts his beliefs about himself?

8. What is the "fashun" that Bakha and his friends adhere to, and why do they do it? (4)

9. What rhetorical purpose is served by the long passage in which Pundit Kali Nath thinks about all of the foods he has recently eaten?

10. What mixture of feelings does Bakha have about Sohini as they make their way home from the temple?

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