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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nataraj fear the housing affair with Vasu will end?
(a) With the loss of the friendship between him and Vasu.
(b) With Vasu murdering him.
(c) With him in jail and Vasu running the press as a museum.
(d) With Vasu living above the press forever.

2. What does Nataraj first credit the tapping on the grill he hears to?
(a) The hyena.
(b) Vasu.
(c) A faulty mechanism in the press.
(d) A ghost.

3. In chapter one, what part of the life Nataraj lives do we see?
(a) We see the history of the house on Kabir Street.
(b) All of the above.
(c) We see the relationships Nataraj has with other people.
(d) We see what Nataraj's life is normally like.

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

5. How did Kumar come to Mempi?
(a) He was given to the temple by the estate of driver who perished on the road.
(b) He was left when the tea plantation closed.
(c) He wandered into town with a herd of cattle from the hills when he was six months old.
(d) He was sold to the temple by a great elephant trainer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How do Nataraj and Sastri raise money for the celebration?

4. What does Nataraj speak with the adjournment lawyer about in their last conversation?

5. How do Sastri and Nataraj choose a day for the celebration?

(see the answer key)

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