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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
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 the narrator say that the word "sahib" refers to (5)?
3. What is a "cantonment" (3)?
4. How many times does Bakha try to mount the temple steps before he has the courage to get all the way to the top step?
5. Why are Chota and Ram Charan eager for the babu's sons to be at the hockey game?
Short Essay Questions
1. What seems ironic to Bakha when he thinks about the reason that schools will not admit outcaste students?
2. What is insincere about Bakha's offer to rub his father's side with oil?
3. What work do Bakha and his family do?
4. Describe the job that Bakha does after he has cleaned all of the latrines twice.
5. What does the description of the town as Bakha enters it emphasize, and how does this foreshadow what will happen later, when Bakha bumps into someone?
6. Describe the conditions in which Bakha's family lives.
7. Describe Bakha's father.
8. What is the "fashun" that Bakha and his friends adhere to, and why do they do it? (4)
9. Besides the accidental bumping, what seems to most offend the man and the crowd that gathers?
10. What altercation does Sohini get into at the well, and why does it happen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what sense does the ending of Untouchable become almost a persuasive essay that evaluates three potential solutions to the problems faced by India's "untouchables"? Write an essay that discusses the solutions being offered and the ways that comic elements in the scene with Colonel Hutchinson, Bakha's reactions to Gandhi, and the emphasis on dialogue over narrative in the novel's final pages function as elements of evaluation of the three proposed solutions. Offer both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text in support of your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that affirms, refutes, or qualifies the following statement: "Despite surface-level criticisms of British imperialism, Anand's novel Untouchable functions as a defense of the British Raj in India." Support your assertions with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
At the time that Untouchable was published, it was hailed as a remarkably unbiased depiction of a Scheduled Caste main character. Now that some time has passed and understanding of prejudice has evolved, does the novel's narrative voice still seem prejudice-free--or does the narrator actually exhibit some biases against Scheduled Caste people? Write an essay that takes and defends a position on this issue. Support your assertions with evidence from the text; if you use outside sources, be sure to cite these in MLA format.
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