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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vasu do for a living?
(a) Vasu is police officer.
(b) Vasu is out of work.
(c) Vasu is a taxidermist.
(d) Vasu is a hunter.

2. Why was the printing job Nataraj was working on when Vasu takes him away urgent?
(a) The order was already late.
(b) It was for a very influential person.
(c) The daily edition had to be printed early in the day.
(d) The wedding was in two weeks.

3. How does Nataraj feel about people coming through the blue curtain into the back of the press?
(a) Nataraj hates the curtain but Sastri insists on keeping it up for privacy.
(b) The curtain is often left open for conversation and light to pass.
(c) The curtain is a barrier between two worlds and people are not invited to pass.
(d) Only people on business are allowed past the curtain into the back.

4. What happened during the time Nataraj was studying at the Albert Mission?
(a) He had many dreams about an elephant.
(b) His grandfather passed away and his father inherited the ancestral home.
(c) The Star needed a new apprentice and offered him the position.
(d) He was betrothed by his family to a girl he refused to marry.

5. What does Vasu bring with him when he returns from Mempi?
(a) Invitations to a procession with an elephant.
(b) The head of a tiger.
(c) The printing order from the tea-shop man.
(d) The tea-shop man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Nataraj suddenly fear when Vasu carelessly answers his request for money?

3. Why was Nataraj a little disappointed that Vasu was not drunk during the jeep ride to Mempi?

4. How does Vasu end up in Nataraj's attic?

5. What does Nataraj do early every morning?

(see the answer key)

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