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

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

3. How long does Vasu say the jeep ride he takes Nataraj on will take?
(a) Five minutes.
(b) The afternoon.
(c) A couple hours.
(d) Until evening.

4. What does Nataraj use his parlor for?
(a) He keeps his printing machines in his parlour.
(b) All of the above.
(c) He decorates his parlour with pictures so people think he has a family.
(d) Nataraj lets any passerby who needs a rest have a seat in his parlour.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nataraj answer when Vasu asks him how many people he employs in his press?

2. How does Vasu explain the stuffed hyena?

3. Which of the following best describes the relationship between Nataraj and Sastri?

4. How does Nataraj fear the housing affair with Vasu will end?

5. What is it that Vasu's guest wants printed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What goes on the front room of the shop that Nataraj runs?

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

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

4. What does Nataraj do when he has difficulty finding a puppy for the septuagenarian's grandson? How does his own son get involved?

5. Explain the transaction between Nataraj and the old Moslem.

6. What does Vasu receive in the mail from the forestry department, and what is his reaction to it?

7. Who does Vasu bring to the press to meet Nataraj, and what happens?

8. What kind of events unfold in chapter one of "The Man-eater of Malgudi?"

9. How do Sen and Vasu get along?

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

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