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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vasu ask of Nataraj in the attic?
(a) Vasu asks Nataraj to store his professional equipment.
(b) Vasu asks Nataraj if he can live in the attic.
(c) Vasu asks Nataraj to think of him as family.
(d) Vasu asks Nataraj to share the fee collected from the old moslem.

2. How does Vasu explain the stuffed hyena?
(a) Vasu claims the stuffed hyena belongs to Nataraj.
(b) Vasu claims to have shot the hyena on the street in front of the house.
(c) Vasu says the hyena came from another forest years ago.
(d) Vasu claims the stuffed hyena was a give from his master.

3. What does Vasu do in the village of Mempi?
(a) Buy Nataraj a whole feast.
(b) Summon the elephant with a great horn.
(c) Jump into his jeep and head into the jungle, leaving Nataraj stranded.
(d) Defend the village homes from the prowling tiger.

4. What does the tea-shop man carefully tend in Mempi?
(a) His tea plantation.
(b) The shrine of the goddess protecting drivers.
(c) A tame tiger kept in a kennel.
(d) The animal population in the forest.

5. What is the relationship between Nataraj and Vasu like for a couple weeks after the court summons?
(a) They leave each other entirely alone.
(b) They often fight in public.
(c) They engage in sabotaging each other's lives.
(d) They have an argument and then re-establish peace.

6. What does Sen like to discuss?
(a) Epic poetry.
(b) The business of the press run by Nataraj.
(c) Elephants.
(d) The mistakes of the president, Nehru.

7. What is Nataraj working on when Vasu wants to take him on a jeep ride?
(a) Wedding invitations for the adjournment lawyer.
(b) The daily edition of the Star.
(c) Labels for aerated soda.
(d) Goldent Thoughts

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

9. How does Nataraj gain leverage in negotiations with the old moslem?
(a) He explains how many employees he has to pay.
(b) He pulls Vasu into the transaction as someone he is answerable to.
(c) None of the above.
(d) He denies the faults of the paper.

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

11. How does Sastri change the conversation with the septuagenarian?
(a) Sastri mentions Vasu as the possible offender.
(b) Sastri tells the old man to leave the building.
(c) Sastri knows more of the story and shares his insight.
(d) Sastri demands action.

12. What profession did Vasu engage in earlier in life?
(a) He was a strong man that performed at markets and fairs crushing granite and bending iron.
(b) He was a large game safari hunter that protected travelers as they crossed wilderness.
(c) None of the above.
(d) He was a monk in an isolated monastery.

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

14. What problem does the septuagenarian bring to Nataraj?
(a) He is trying to rent a room in his home but no-one will rent near Vasu.
(b) His grandson's dog had been shot.
(c) The odor of Vasu's work is hurting his lungs.
(d) He is afraid of Vasu's violence.

15. What does Nataraj promise the Septuagenaraian in order to appease him?
(a) To propose a law against guns.
(b) To speak to Vasu.
(c) To have Vasu evicted.
(d) To get a new puppy for his grandson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What starts a friendly conversation between Nataraj and the tea-shop man?

2. How many people work with Nataraj at his press?

3. Why does the adjournment lawyer owe Nataraj?

4. Which of the following is a phrase used to describe Vasu?

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

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