Deck 1: Novel Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand

Question 1

Who is the Protagonist in 'Untouchable'?

A)Lakha
B)Bakha
C)Col. Hutchinson
D)Sohini

Answer 1

Bakha

Question 2

Why does Bakha have a high regard for European Clothing?

A)He believes it will help disguise his untouchability
B)It is more affordable then Indian clothing
C)He is too tall for Indian Clothing
D)He thinks wearing it will make him a sahib.

Answer 2

He thinks wearing it will make him a sahib.

Question 3

Who is Waziro in ' Untouchable'?

A)The weaver's wife
B)Chhota's mother
C)Gulabo's sister
D)The leather maker's wife

Answer 3

The weaver's wife

Question 4

Bakha describes Ramanandas

A)A peevish old black moneylender
B)A slave driver
C)A day dreamer
D)A high class latrine cleaner

Question 5

Who helps Sohini fill her water buckets?

A)A sepoy
B)A priest of the temple
C)A sahib
D)A hindu water carrier

Question 6

Why does Gulabo hate Sohini

A)Because she broke her son's heart
B)Because she is jealous of Sohini's beauty
C)Because Sohini is smart and rude towards her
D)Because sohini is of a higher class than her

Question 7

What kind of gift did Bakha beg from the Tommy?

A)A pair of trousers
B)An old uniform
C)A cricket bat
D)Money

Question 8

Who was Lakha afraid of ?

A)The Pundits
B)The Sepoys
C)The tax collectors
D)Bakha

Question 9

What kind of power did the burning flame give Bakha?

A)Power to forgive
B)Power to create
C)Power to take revenge
D)Power to destroy

Question 10

Why does Gulabo hate Sohini?

A)Sohini is always rude to her
B)Sohini broke her son's heart
C)She was jealous of her beauty
D)She was helped by the pandit

Question 11

Bakha is encouraged to convert to Christianity by

A)Colonel Hutchinson
B)Mary Hutchinson
C)Charat Singh
D)Mahatma Gandhi

Question 12

Bakha's friends nicknamed him

A)Pilpali Sahib
B)Bakshish
C)Bara Babu
D)Kala Babu

Question 13

When Bakha carried the injured boy to his mother she

A)thanked him
B)shouted at him for polluting the boy
C)invited him for tea
D)gave him sweets

Question 14

Bakha would sacrifice many comforts for the sake of what he called 'fashun' to look like a

A)Sahib
B)Mohamedan
C)Hindu
D)Brahmin

Question 15

Lakha told his son that schools were meant not for sweepers but only for

A)the babus
B)the tommies
C)the rich
D)the middle class

Question 16

Mahatma Gandhi addressed a large crowd at 'maidan' situated near the railway station of

A)Balaghat town
B)Bulandshahr town
C)Balangir town
D)Gadarpur town

Question 17

Liberation of untouchability as overheard by Bakha was possible through

A)abolition of caste system
B)introduction of flush system
C)gender equality
D)changing of profession

Question 18

While cleaning the temple courtyard Sohini was sexually assaulted by the priest named

A)Charat Singh
B)Kali Nath
C)Ram Charan
D)Lakha

Question 19

Bakha is encouraged to convert to Christianity by

A)Ramcharan
B)Havildar Charat Singh
C)Colonel Hutchinson
D)The Burra Babu's son

Question 20

Bakha's friends nicknamed him as

A)Burra Babu
B)Pilpali Sahib
C)Bakshish
D)Master

Question 21

According to Bakha, the solution to the problem of untouchability is

A)conversion to Christianity
B)practice of equality
C)the flush system
D)all of the above

Question 22

_______________ poured water into Sohini's pitcher.

A)the Mohammedan
B)Gulabo
C)Pundit Kali Nath
D)the Tonga Wallah

Question 23

Who is Waziro?

A)Gulabo's sister
B)The woman at the market
C)The weaver's wife
D)Bakha's mother

Question 24

Gulabo, the washerwoman is jealous of Sohini because she is

A)smart
B)helped by the Pundit
C)beautiful
D)Lakha's daughter

Question 25

What is the name of Bakha's Town?

A)Bulashah
B)Pune
C)Calcutta
D)Maharastra