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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Forty-Five a Month, Out of Business.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Shanta learning at school?
(a) None of these answers is correct.
(b) Her alphabet.
(c) Her alphabet and how to tell time.
(d) How to tell time.

2. How long has Thanapa been a mailman when he is first introduced in the text?
(a) Not long at all.
(b) This is a trick question; he is actually a butcher.
(c) A very long time.
(d) This is a trick question; he is not a mailman.

3. What man comes to see the astrologer as he is just about to close down for the night?
(a) A random man whose name we never learn.
(b) The king.
(c) The astrologer's father.
(d) Guru Nayak.

4. What does Soma offer to do to placate the god in lieu of damaging his beloved statue?
(a) Cut off his hands.
(b) Drown himself in a nearby river.
(c) Sacrifice his first-born son.
(d) Nothing.

5. Who is Ramanujan?
(a) Kamakshi's husband.
(b) Kamakshi's father.
(c) Kamakshi's brother.
(d) Kamakshi's priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the talkative man first try to keep his engine?

2. What reason does Swami give his dad for not wanting to go to school?

3. What does the talkative man lecture the villagers on?

4. Whose death causes the blind man to put a rope on the dog?

5. How many stories are in "Malgudi Days"?

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