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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does speaking to Vasu remind Nataraj of?
(a) Taming a wild tiger.
(b) Speaking to his father when he was a little boy.
(c) Speaking with a foreigner.
(d) None of the above.

3. What starts a friendly conversation between Nataraj and the tea-shop man?
(a) Both have been slighted by Vasu.
(b) The feast that Vasu has paid for.
(c) The tea-shop man needs to print some fliers.
(d) None of the above.

4. Which of the following best describes a philosophy practiced by Vasu?
(a) Might is right.
(b) Hard work pays off.
(c) All of the above.
(d) As civilized beings, it is up to us to prove our superiority to nature.

5. Who interrupts Vasu and Nataraj's conversation? What is Vasu's reaction?
(a) The poet interrupts them, and Vasu ignores him.
(b) A woman interrupts them, and Vasu falls respectfully silent when she approaches.
(c) Sastri interrupts them, and Vasu yells at him.
(d) Babu, Nataraj's son interrupts them, and Vasu brushes him off.

6. What misunderstanding occurs between Vasu and Nataraj?
(a) Vasu expects the cards to be delivered and Nataraj waits for him to pick them up.
(b) Vasu returns expecting his cards to be done, but he still needs to choose type and stationary.
(c) Vasu thinks the cards are a fraction of their real price.
(d) Nataraj printed the wrong information on the cards.

7. Why has the adjournment lawyer had a hard time financially?
(a) Few people seek legal council.
(b) The people he helps can't pay their bills.
(c) He is negligent about handling money.
(d) Since his daughters wedding he has had to give many gifts to his in-laws.

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

9. What action does Nataraj take regarding Vasu?
(a) He summons the police to evict him.
(b) He pins a note on his door asking him to come talk to him, then tells him he needs the room.
(c) He decides make Vasu's life difficult and hope he leaves.
(d) He confronts Vasu and tells him he must leave in a week.

10. What does Vasu want printed?
(a) Advertisements for his business services.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Business cards and letterhead.
(d) Fliers about a festival.

11. What does Nataraj ask Vasu for at the tea-shop in Mempi?
(a) Money to buy something to eat.
(b) To be left alone.
(c) To save the village from the tiger.
(d) To take him back to Malgudi.

12. What is the first action of Vasu in The Man-eater of Malgudi?
(a) The first action of Vasu is to threaten Nataraj.
(b) The first action of Vasu is to show Nataraj a selection of his work.
(c) The first action of Vasu is to barge through the curtain, violating the traditions of Nataraj's press.
(d) The first action of Vasu is to order a large printing job.

13. How does Nataraj control the situation in his parlor?
(a) He defends Sen and the poet all the time.
(b) He sends Vasu out on frequent errands.
(c) He doesn't, he lets it unfold as it will.
(d) He removes the Queen Anne chair.

14. What does Vasu receive from the forestry department?
(a) A permit to go into forest and shoot duck and deer.
(b) A warning about trespassing into the forest.
(c) A book of forestry rules.
(d) A big game hunting license.

15. What are the dynamics between Vasu and the poet?
(a) They knew each other previously.
(b) They are mutually respectful but distant.
(c) Vasu gets the poet to move from the Queen Anne chair when he arrives.
(d) The poet refuses to hear Vasu talk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vasu bring with him when he returns from Mempi?

2. What stories does Sastri tell Nataraj?

3. Why must Nataraj stay hidden behind his blue curtain while the court is in session?

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

5. What does the tea-shop man carefully tend in Mempi?

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