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

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

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

4. Where is the office that Nataraj must visit?
(a) In Mempi.
(b) Over a cotton factory.
(c) Next door to the courthouse.
(d) All the way across town.

5. In the beginning of chapter two, what are Nataraj and Sastri printing?
(a) Invitations to a festival.
(b) Business cards for a taxidermist.
(c) Colour labels for K.J.'s aerated drinks.
(d) The daily newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nataraj gain leverage in negotiations with the old moslem?

2. In chapter one, what part of the life Nataraj lives do we see?

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

4. What does Vasu do for a living?

5. How does Nataraj feel about the enmity between him and Vasu?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nataraj do early every morning?

2. How does Nataraj feel about Vasu living upstairs?

3. How does Nataraj end up on a long day trip with no money and with a client waiting in his press?

4. What is the affair regarding the septuagenarian and a dog?

5. What was the bus ride back to Malgudi like for Nataraj?

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

7. What happens when the forestry officer comes to the press looking for Vasu?

8. What happens when Vasu returns, and what does he want to show Nataraj?

9. How does Nataraj feel about Vasu living in the attic as he observes him practicing his profession? Why?

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

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