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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 - 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Raman do for a bookseller in exchange for free books?
(a) Spruce up his sign.
(b) Give him drugs.
(c) Give him advice.
(d) Shine his shoes.

2. What does Raman warn people about his sign at the lawyer's celebration?
(a) Wet paint.
(b) The traffic.
(c) The punch.
(d) The weather.

3. Whose advice is the lawyer adamant about taking?
(a) His mother's.
(b) His father's.
(c) His astrologer's.
(d) His lawyer's.

4. What does Raman make of the lawyer's requests for his nameboard?
(a) He thinks they are sensible.
(b) He thinks they are a joke.
(c) He thinks they are ridiculous.
(d) He thinks they are funny.

5. Who does Raman see washing clothes in the river?
(a) An old man.
(b) A beautiful woman.
(c) An old friend.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raman think of slanted letters on a nameboard?

2. Who does Raman live with?

3. Who commissions Raman for a job at the beginning of the novel?

4. Where does the lawyer take Raman to talk?

5. Where does Raman often eat lunch?

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