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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following best describes the kind of man that Nataraj is?
(a) Emotional and easy to manipulate.
(b) Ambitious and driven.
(c) Frivolous and vain.
(d) Content, kind, and hard working.

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

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

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

6. Which of the following best describes Vasu?
(a) Loud, egotistical, and invasive.
(b) Demanding, sincere, and strongwilled.
(c) Strong, kind, and slightly confused.
(d) Quiet, manipulative, and resentful.

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

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

9. How many people work with Nataraj at his press?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Nataraj worked with his whole family at the press.
(c) A foreman, an office boy, a compositor, a binder and an accountant.
(d) Just one, an old man called Sastri.

10. 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.

11. Why was Nataraj a little disappointed that Vasu was not drunk during the jeep ride to Mempi?
(a) It was worse that Vasu would conduct himself the way he did dead sober.
(b) He was hoping to stop at a bar for a drink himself.
(c) None of the above.
(d) He was hoping that Vasu would fall asleep in Mempi.

12. What does Nataraj say he should have done if he cared for a peaceful existence?
(a) Close his parlour.
(b) Run the printing press by himself.
(c) Reject Vasu on the first day.
(d) Negotiate with his family.

13. What did Vasu hear about when they reached Mempi?
(a) The forestry service was taking the week off.
(b) There was a wild elephant nearby in the jungle.
(c) There had been a tiger prowling through town the previous night.
(d) Several poachers had been shot and killed.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Nataraj was growing up, why did his uncle give him money every day?

3. What is the relationship like between Nataraj and his neighbors?

4. Where is the village of Mempi?

5. What is the relationship between Nataraj and Vasu like for a couple weeks after the court summons?

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