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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity does Vasu start to engage in as his poaching becomes more difficult?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Vasu starts bringing women to the apartment.
(c) Vasu starts yelling and threatening the neighborhood children.
(d) Vasu starts bullying people for money.

2. What is a rakshasa?
(a) A situation in which the person with true power is left powerless in the face of a lesser power with more conviction.
(b) A demoniac creature with strange powers that recognizes no restraints of man or God.
(c) A small weasel like predator in the Mempi forest.
(d) A man-eating tiger.

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

4. 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) None of the above.
(d) Speaking with a foreigner.

5. How does the septuagenarian react when he hears Sastri's information?
(a) He blames Nataraj for covering for the offender.
(b) He says next Vasu will be pointing guns at children.
(c) All of the above.
(d) He aks to go see Vasu himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the dynamics between Vasu and the poet?

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

3. What does Sen like to discuss?

4. What does Nataraj promise the Septuagenaraian in order to appease him?

5. Which of the following best describes the feelings of the poet about Vasu?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of the blue curtain separating the two rooms of the printing press, and why is this important to Nataraj?

2. What does Nataraj fear that Vasu will do in order to retaliate regarding the forestry officer and what does he do about it?

3. What is in the second brown envelope that arrives for Nataraj and who is it from? What does he promise in response to it?

4. Who is Rangi, and how do Sastri and Nataraj cross paths with her? What does Nataraj surmise when he starts seeing her?

5. What happened to the transaction with the client that Nataraj left waiting when he left with Vasu?

6. Describe the business that Nataraj runs.

7. Who does Nataraj employ at the printing press? What is his relationship with his hired help?

8. Explain how Vasu arranges to move into Nataraj's attic.

9. Where does Nataraj seek help in resolving his legal affairs?

10. How does Vasu get along with the poet and Babu? Give examples.

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