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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nataraj's poet friend trying to accomplish?
(a) Nataraj's poet friend is documenting the life of the town in poems.
(b) Nataraj's poet friend wants Nataraj to marry his sister.
(c) Nataraj's poet friend is determined to prove Nataraj has no family.
(d) Nataraj's poet friend is writing the life of Krishna is monsyllabic verse.

2. What is the relationship like between Nataraj and his neighbors?
(a) Friendly and cordial.
(b) Competitive and suspicious.
(c) Cold and distant.
(d) Manipulative and deceiptful.

3. Who currently lives in the house on Kabir Street?
(a) Just Nataraj.
(b) Nataraj, his wife, and son Babu.
(c) The owners of the Star.
(d) A famous elephant trainer.

4. How does Nataraj feel about having the taxidermy business upstairs?
(a) None of the above.
(b) It horrifies him.
(c) He thinks it is sort of neat but dislikes the smell.
(d) He wishes he could create such life like creations.

5. Who gives Nataraj cold looks when he runs into them on the street?
(a) The girl he spurned at the market.
(b) The owners of the Star.
(c) His extended family.
(d) The politicians.

6. How does Vasu choose the details of the printing job he wants done?
(a) Vasu chooses the most expensive of everything.
(b) Vasu asks Nataraj to choose for him.
(c) Vasu chooses the cheapest of everthing.
(d) Vasu has strong likes and dislikes and knows exactly what he wants.

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

8. What was lost when Nataraj's grandmother passed away?
(a) The ancestral home of the family.
(b) Family unity between the five brothers and their families.
(c) All documentation of Nataraj's existence.
(d) The stories of Nataraj's grandfather, an elephant handler.

9. What does Nataraj promise the sanitary inspector from the health department?
(a) That he was not the party to blame.
(b) That he would move the tanning business.
(c) That his neighbors had made up their accusations.
(d) That he had no power to solve the situation.

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

11. How does Nataraj feel about the enmity between him and Vasu?
(a) He wishes he could re-establish cordiality.
(b) He misses Vasu's rough friendship.
(c) All of the above.
(d) It consumes him and makes him feel like a child.

12. How much room does Nataraj need for his printing press?
(a) He can just squeeze everything into the place he has.
(b) The back room of the place he owns.
(c) A shop downtown with three rooms.
(d) He uses the back wall of his home where he can line up the machines.

13. What interaction does Vasu have with a woman and her daughter on the roadside?
(a) He grabs some snacks the poor woman was peddling and leaves without paying.
(b) He stops the car and helps the women tie up a bundle on a horse that has fallen off.
(c) He tries to persuade the woman and her daughter to join him and Nataraj in the jeep.
(d) He aims the jeep at them and swerves at the last moment, laughing at their fright.

14. Is Vasu Nataraj's tenant?
(a) Yes, but pays a token rent amount.
(b) No, he isn't answerable to Nataraj.
(c) Yes, he gave Natraraj a sum upfront to move in.
(d) No, he doesn't pay rent despite living in the attic.

15. What does Nataraj think about Vasu's friend's printing job?
(a) None of the above.
(b) The book contained most of the sentiments Vasu missed in life.
(c) The festival would be poorly attended.
(d) The rules were clearly being printed for Vasu's benefit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Nataraj a little disappointed that Vasu was not drunk during the jeep ride to Mempi?

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

3. Why does the adjournment lawyer owe Nataraj?

4. What does Nataraj tell Vasu's friend about the printing job?

5. What person does Vasu bring into Nataraj's parlor?

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