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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 Nataraj think about Vasu's friend's printing job?
(a) None of the above.
(b) The rules were clearly being printed for Vasu's benefit.
(c) The festival would be poorly attended.
(d) The book contained most of the sentiments Vasu missed in life.

2. How many people work with Nataraj at his press?
(a) None of the above.
(b) A foreman, an office boy, a compositor, a binder and an accountant.
(c) Just one, an old man called Sastri.
(d) Nataraj worked with his whole family at the press.

3. What are the dynamics between Vasu and the poet?
(a) They are mutually respectful but distant.
(b) They knew each other previously.
(c) Vasu gets the poet to move from the Queen Anne chair when he arrives.
(d) The poet refuses to hear Vasu talk.

4. What does the tea-shop man carefully tend in Mempi?
(a) The animal population in the forest.
(b) His tea plantation.
(c) A tame tiger kept in a kennel.
(d) The shrine of the goddess protecting drivers.

5. What does Nataraj do early every morning?
(a) Bathe and wash his clothes in the river.
(b) Visit the elephant.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Collect news stories for the paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vasu hear about when they reached Mempi?

2. What is the relationship like between Nataraj and his neighbors?

3. In the beginning of chapter two, what are Nataraj and Sastri printing?

4. What does Vasu want printed?

5. How does Nataraj control the situation in his parlor?

(see the answer key)

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