MCQs- Untouchable
1. The novel
follows a single day in the life of:
A. Bakha
B. Rakha
C. Lakha
D. Ram Charan
Answer: Bakha
2. Untouchable
was published in:
A. 1930
B. 1935
C. 1940
D. 1943
Answer: 1935
3. What was
the age of Bakha?
A. 18 years
B. 16 years
C. 21 years
D. 17 years
Answer: A. 18
years
4. Who wrote
the preface to Untouchable?
A. Mahatma Gandhi
B. E.M. Forster
C. W.B. Yeats
D. Walt Whitman
Answer: B. E.M.
Forster
5. Who is the
protagonist of Untouchable?
A. Bakha
B. Sohini
C. Havildar
Charat Singh
D. Colonel
Hutchinson
Answer: A. Bakha
6. What was
the name of Bakha's sister?
A. Gulabo
B. Waziro
C. Mohini
D. Sohini
Answer: D. Sohini
7. Who
sexually molests Sohini?
A. Pandit Kali
Nath
B. Ram Charan
C. Charat Singh
D. Colonel Huchinson
Answer: A. Pandit
Kali Nath
8. Who was
Bakha?
A. Havildar
B. Player
C. Pandit
D. Toilet-cleaner
Answer: D.
Toilet-cleaner
9.What are
"Tommies"?
A. Indian
soldiers
B. British hockey
players
C. British women
D. British
private soldiers
Answer: D.
British private soldiers
10.Who is
Bakha’s father?
A. Ram Charan
B. Colonel
Hutchinson
C. Lakha
D. Havildar
Charat Singh
Answer: C. Lakha
11. What is
Bakha's caste?
A. Brahmin
B. Kshatriya
C. Vaishya
D. Untouchable
Answer: D.
Untouchable
12. What is
the main theme of the novel "Untouchable"?
A. Love and
romance
B. Caste
discrimination
C. Political
revolution
D. Religious
fanaticism
Answer: B. Caste
discrimination
13. What is
Bakha's father's profession?
A. Jamadar of
sweepers
B. Farmer
C. Priest
D. Cobbler
Answer: A.
Jamadar of sweepers
14. Where is
the setting of Untouchable?
A. Amritsar
B. Sharanpur
C. Agra
D. Bulandshahr
Answer:
Bulandshahr (Fictionalized as "Bulashah")
15. Who gave
hockey sticks to Bakha?
A. Lakha
B. Hutchinson
C. Havildar
Charat Singh
D. Rakha
Answer: Havildar
Charat Singh
16. What does
"Kala admi zamin par hagne wala" mean?
A. "Black
man, you who relieve yourself on the ground."
B. "Black
man, you who live in squalor."
C. "Black
man, you who squat in the road."
D. "Black
man, you who lives amongst the dirt and animals."
Answer: A.
"Black man, you who relieve yourself on the ground."
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17. Who is the
famous hockey player in the novel?
A. Havildar
Charat Singh
B. Bakha
C. Lakha
D. Pandit Kali
Nath
Answer: A.
Havildar Charat Singh
18. Why does
Bakha love European clothing?
A. It is more
affordable than Indian clothing.
B. He is too tall
for most Indian clothing.
C. He thinks
wearing it makes him a sahib too.
D. He thinks it
helps to disguise his untouchability.
Answer: C. He
thinks wearing it makes him a sahib too.
19. Who fell
in love with Sohini?
A. Chota
B. Ram Charan
C. Havildar
Charat Singh
D. Lachman
Answer: D.
Lachman
20. Who
successfully gets Bakha to wake up completely?
A. Ramanand
B. Lakha
C. Charat Singh
D. Sohini
Answer: C. Charat
Singh
21. What was
the name of Bakha's younger brother?
A. Lakha
B. Rakha
C. Ram Charan
D. Bholu
Answer: B. Rakha
22. Who was
inspired by Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable?
A. J.L. Nehru
B. T.S. Eliot
C. Mahatma Gandhi
D. Sardar Patel
Answer: C.
Mahatma Gandhi
23. Why does
Gulabo hate Sohini?
A. Sohini is
always rude to her.
B. Sohini broke
her son's heart.
C. She's jealous
of Sohini's beauty.
D. Sohini is
higher than her in the class hierarchy.
Answer: C. She's
jealous of Sohini's beauty.
24. What
illness does Lakha fake to get out of his sweeper duties?
A. A sore knee
B. A terrible
cold
C. Difficulty
breathing
D. A pain in his
side
Answer: D. A pain
in his side
25. Who helps
Sohini fill her water bucket?
A. A priest of
the town temple
B. A sahib
C. A Hindu
water-carrier
D. A sepoy
Answer: A. A
priest of the town temple
26. The
different clothing of the Indian men best illustrates which theme?
A. Cyclical
oppression
B. Class struggle
C. You are what
you wear
D. Religion
Answer: C. You
are what you wear
27. What
literary element is illustrated in: "The burning flame seemed to ally
itself with him..."?
A. Repetition
B. Alliteration
C. Structure
D. Parallelism
Answer: A.
Repetition
28. Who is
Waziro?
A. The leather
maker's wife
B. Chota's mother
C. The weaver's
wife
D. Gulabo's
sister
Answer: C. The
weaver's wife
29. Why is
Bakha enamored with the Tommies?
A. He is
impressed by their military prowess
B. He loves their
clothes
C. He has
received money and food from them
D. He was treated
well when he worked for them
Answer: D. He was
treated well when he worked for them
30. The
structure of Untouchable most closely aligns with which classical model?
A. The Hero’s
Journey
B. The Three-Act
Structure
C. The
Aristotelian Unity (Time, Place, Action)
D. The
Bildungsroman
Answer: C. The
Aristotelian Unity (Time, Place, Action)
31. Why is
Bakha considered "untouchable"?
A. Because he
committed a crime
B. Due to his
caste (born into the Bhangi caste)
C. Because he
refused to follow traditions
D. Because he is
a foreigner
Answer: B. Due to
his caste (born into the Bhangi caste)
32. What
incident causes Bakha to be humiliated in the market?
A. He steals food
B. He touches a
high-caste man
C. He begs for
money
D. He insults a
Brahmin
Answer: B. He
touches a high-caste man
33. How does
Bakha dream of escaping his low status?
A. By becoming a
priest
B. By adopting
Western clothing and manners
C. By moving to
another country
D. By marrying a
higher-caste woman
Answer: B. By
adopting Western clothing and manners
34. What is
the setting of Untouchable?
A. A single day
in Bakha’s life
B. A year in
Bakha’s childhood
C. A week during
a festival
D. A month of
political unrest
Answer: A. A
single day in Bakha’s life
35. What does
the priest accuse Bakha of at the temple?
A. Stealing shoes
B. Polluting the
temple
C. Eating sacred
food
D. Sleeping on
the steps
Answer: B.
Polluting the temple
36. How is
Untouchable structurally unique compared to traditional novels?
A. It uses
numbered chapters with titles
B. It's divided
into vignette-like sections covering one day
C. It follows
multiple characters over decades
D. It's written
entirely in verse
Answer: B. It's
divided into vignette-like sections covering one day
37. Which
character sexually harasses Bakha’s sister, Sohini?
A. Havildar
Charat Singh
B. Priest
Kalinath
C. Colonel
Hutchinson
D. The
money-lender
Answer: B. Priest
Kalinath
38. What does
the novel criticize most sharply?
A. British
colonialism
B. The caste
system
C. Religious
diversity
D.
Industrialization
Answer: B. The
caste system
39. What does
Bakha’s father, Lakha, represent?
A. Resistance to
British rule
B. Acceptance of
the caste system’s oppression
C. Religious
devotion
D. Westernization
Answer: B.
Acceptance of the caste system’s oppression
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70. How does
Chota react to Sohini's assault?
A. Urges Bakha to
fight
B. Wants to tell
Lakha
C. Suggests
police
D. Stays silent
Answer: A. Urges
Bakha to fight (But Bakha refuses)
71. How does
Ram Charan react to Sohini's assault?
A. Avoids
discussing caste
B. Reports to
police
C. Tells his
sister
D. Confronts the
priest
Answer: A. Avoids
discussing caste (Shows caste complicity)
72. Where do
Untouchables live?
A. Town outskirts
B. Temple alleys
C. Riverbanks
D. Forest edges
Answer: A. Town
outskirts (Segregated from caste Hindus)
73. What work
do lowest castes perform?
A. Sanitation
B. Farming
C. Weaving
D. Pottery
Answer: A.
Sanitation
74. Who gives
the speech on caste system in the village?
A. Gandhi
B. Nehru
C. A British
officer
D. A local leader
Answer: A. Gandhi
75. Which
historical figure’s ideas influence Bakha by the novel’s end?
A. Bhagat Singh
B. Jawaharlal
Nehru
C. Mahatma Gandhi
D. B.R. Ambedkar
Answer: C.
Mahatma Gandhi
76. What
technological solution does the poet suggest?
A. Flush toilets
B. Tractors
C. Printing
presses
D. Railways
Answer: A. Flush
toilets
77. Who is the
first person Bakha wants to tell about Gandhi's speech?
A. His sister
B. His father
C. His mother
D. His brother
Answer: B. His
father (Lakha)
78. How does
the novel end?
A. Bakha leaves
his family to start a new life
B. Bakha hears
Gandhi’s speech and feels hope for change
C. Bakha commits
suicide
D. Bakha
violently rebels against caste oppression
Answer: B. Bakha
hears Gandhi’s speech and feels hope for change
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