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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was lost when Nataraj's grandmother passed away?
(a) Family unity between the five brothers and their families.
(b) All documentation of Nataraj's existence.
(c) The ancestral home of the family.
(d) The stories of Nataraj's grandfather, an elephant handler.

2. What does Nataraj say about Vasu's proposal in the attic?
(a) Nataraj is ecstatic about his friend having a reason to be there more often.
(b) Nataraj never answers but Vasu moves in anyway.
(c) Nataraj debates carefully and decided the extra income would be beneficial.
(d) Nataraj is against the idea.

3. Why does Nataraj feel silly in Mempi?
(a) He knew nothing about tigers.
(b) Vasu kept telling everyone what an excellent landlord he was.
(c) Everyone else there was a hunter.
(d) He hadn't planned on being gone, so he had no buttons for his shirt and no money to buy food.

4. How much room does Nataraj need for his printing press?
(a) He uses the back wall of his home where he can line up the machines.
(b) The back room of the place he owns.
(c) A shop downtown with three rooms.
(d) He can just squeeze everything into the place he has.

5. What action does Vasu take regarding where he lives?
(a) He tries to hide his business so as to not bother anyone.
(b) He starts looking for a house.
(c) He files a complaint against Nataraj as a landlord.
(d) He threatens Nataraj against trying to evict him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nataraj feel about people coming through the blue curtain into the back of the press?

2. Who gives Nataraj cold looks when he runs into them on the street?

3. Which of the following is a phrase used to describe Vasu?

4. Which of the following best describes the feelings of the poet about Vasu?

5. What starts a friendly conversation between Nataraj and the tea-shop man?

(see the answer key)

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