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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Nataraj use his parlor for?
(a) He keeps his printing machines in his parlour.
(b) Nataraj lets any passerby who needs a rest have a seat in his parlour.
(c) All of the above.
(d) He decorates his parlour with pictures so people think he has a family.

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

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

5. What profession did Vasu engage in earlier in life?
(a) None of the above.
(b) He was a monk in an isolated monastery.
(c) He was a large game safari hunter that protected travelers as they crossed wilderness.
(d) He was a strong man that performed at markets and fairs crushing granite and bending iron.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Star?

2. What does Vasu receive from the forestry department?

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

4. How do Sen and the poet react when Vasu comes into the parlor?

5. Does Nataraj have a family of his own?

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