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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity does Vasu start to engage in as his poaching becomes more difficult?
(a) Vasu starts bringing women to the apartment.
(b) Vasu starts yelling and threatening the neighborhood children.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Vasu starts bullying people for money.

2. What does Vasu bring back to the building with him all the time after he starts going to the forest?
(a) Animals he has shot.
(b) Friends to discuss tiger hunting.
(c) Big game hunters.
(d) People to look at and make offers on the stuffed tiger.

3. Why does Nataraj feel silly in Mempi?
(a) He knew nothing about tigers.
(b) Vasu kept telling everyone what an excellent landlord he was.
(c) Everyone else there was a hunter.
(d) He hadn't planned on being gone, so he had no buttons for his shirt and no money to buy food.

4. How does Vasu end up in Nataraj's attic?
(a) He goes up to try to get rid of the scorpions and snakes.
(b) He is looking for Nataraj.
(c) He goes up to inspect the paper with the old moslem.
(d) He is curious and goes up when Nataraj is not looking.

5. When Nataraj was growing up, why did his uncle give him money every day?
(a) To make a donation to the goddess for the sacred animals.
(b) To buy mice for the pet eagle.
(c) To buy sugar to feed the ants.
(d) To buy bullets to scare away the crows and squirrels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interaction does Vasu have with a woman and her daughter on the roadside?

2. How does Sastri change the conversation with the septuagenarian?

3. What does Vasu ask of Nataraj in the attic?

4. How does Nataraj gain leverage in negotiations with the old moslem?

5. Who gives Nataraj cold looks when he runs into them on the street?

(see the answer key)

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