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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the court summons, what is the next thing official thing to arrive for Nataraj in a brown envelope?
(a) A bill from the lawyer for an extravagant amount of money.
(b) None of the above.
(c) A notice of complaints from municipal authority about the sanitation of the tanning business at the press.
(d) The notice of a new date for the court hearing.

2. 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 sugar to feed the ants.
(c) To buy mice for the pet eagle.
(d) To buy bullets to scare away the crows and squirrels.

3. How does Nataraj return to Malgudi from Mempi?
(a) An eight hour bus ride on credit.
(b) By taxi.
(c) The tea-shop man gets him a ride with a relative.
(d) Vasu drives him back.

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

5. What does Nataraj have stashed away up in his attic that he wishes to be rid of?
(a) Old newspapers, magazines and other waste paper.
(b) Scorpions and snakes.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Several animals stuffed by a taxidermist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes a philosophy practiced by Vasu?

2. What advice does Nataraj receive about Vasu?

3. When Muthu comes to the press, what does he ask Nataraj for help with?

4. What was the town saying about Nataraj after Vasu's death?

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

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