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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 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 cheapest of everthing.
(c) Vasu chooses the most expensive of everything.
(d) Vasu asks Nataraj to choose for him.

2. How did Kumar come to Mempi?
(a) He was sold to the temple by a great elephant trainer.
(b) He was given to the temple by the estate of driver who perished on the road.
(c) He wandered into town with a herd of cattle from the hills when he was six months old.
(d) He was left when the tea plantation closed.

3. What makes Vasu change and become soft and agreeable?
(a) The presence of an official.
(b) When everyone compliments him.
(c) When Nataraj threatens to evict him.
(d) The presence of women.

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

5. What does Nataraj answer when Vasu asks him how many people he employs in his press?
(a) Six people.
(b) Just Sastri.
(c) As many as I need.
(d) I employ several specialists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nataraj use his parlor for?

2. After the court summons, what is the next thing official thing to arrive for Nataraj in a brown envelope?

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

4. How does Nataraj feel about people coming through the blue curtain into the back of the press?

5. What is the state of the citrus tree behind the house on Kabir Street?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Sen and Vasu get along?

3. What does Nataraj do early every morning?

4. What is the story of the house on Kabir Street?

5. Explain the relationship developing in chapter two between Vasu and Nataraj. What are their interactions like?

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

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

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

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

10. How are the relationships Nataraj has with the people around him?

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