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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Vasu at keeping his appointment?
(a) He arrives early.
(b) He misses the time agreed on for him to return, but shows up fifteen days later.
(c) He demands an appointment immediately the first time he wanders in.
(d) He keeps his engagements.

2. What had lived before in the house on Kabir street?
(a) The owner of the Star.
(b) A wealthy family that wanted Nataraj to marry their daughter.
(c) A taxidermist.
(d) Nataraj's extended family, consisting of four uncles and their families.

3. What is a rakshasa?
(a) A small weasel like predator in the Mempi forest.
(b) A demoniac creature with strange powers that recognizes no restraints of man or God.
(c) A man-eating tiger.
(d) A situation in which the person with true power is left powerless in the face of a lesser power with more conviction.

4. What answer does Vasu give Nataraj about whether he found a house to live in?
(a) He said his house would be available in several months.
(b) He is no longer looking for a house.
(c) He doesn't give an answer.
(d) He has a house but he rented it out for the money.

5. What new problem brought on by Vasu bothers Sastri at the press?
(a) Vasu driving away Sen and the poet.
(b) All of the above.
(c) A stuffed hyena at the bottom of the stairs.
(d) The sound of Vasu's heavy boots pacing back and forth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Nataraj run into that helps him with his situation?

2. How did Kumar come to Mempi?

3. How does the septuagenarian react when he hears Sastri's information?

4. What activity does Vasu start to engage in as his poaching becomes more difficult?

5. What move was taken to preserve peace between the five brothers and their families?

(see the answer key)

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