2. What does the talkative man hit accidentally with his engine?
(a) A compound wall.
(b) His own house.
(c) The side of the library.
(d) Someone's house.

3. How old is Shanta?
(a) Elementary-school age.
(b) A teenager.
(c) Quite old -- perhaps 60 or 65.
(d) Very, very young -- maybe 2 or 3.

4. How long does the dog hang around the market before it meets the blind man?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 1 year.

5. How long has it taken Soma to make his statue of a god?
(a) 5 months.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 5 years.

6. What does the sadhu first request of the talkative man?
(a) Books.
(b) Money.
(c) Food.
(d) Shelter.

7. What goals does the talkative man have for himself and his music?
(a) Just to play at the village temple.
(b) To become rich and famous.
(c) To play with Yo Yo Ma one day.
(d) To get his vision back.

8. What item does the man in the green blazer buy for a motherless boy?
(a) A nice dinner.
(b) A balloon.
(c) New clothes.
(d) A stuffed animal.

9. What is Shanta learning at school?
(a) How to tell time.
(b) Her alphabet and how to tell time.
(c) None of these answers is correct.
(d) Her alphabet.

10. Why does Govind Singh retire?
(a) None of these answers is correct.
(b) Because his vision is declining.
(c) Because his hearing and vision are both declining.
(d) Because his hearing is declining.

11. Why does Kannan decide he can gamble?
(a) Because the family has a surplus of money.
(b) Because he's the man of the house and he can do whatever he wants.
(c) Because he can just feel that he is lucky that day.
(d) Because his wife and son are out of town.

12. What does Swami's father write a letter complaining about?
(a) How expensive tuition is for such a bad school.
(b) The horrible bus driver
(c) Swami's reportedly abusive teacher.
(d) The lack of supervision on the playground.

13. What action of Govind Singh's attracts a police officer's attention?
(a) He throws a rock at a street light.
(b) He is out with a lot of women one night.
(c) He is running through the streets, screaming.
(d) He is dressed very, very oddly.

14. What does the talkative man sell for a living?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Medicines.
(c) Figurines.
(d) Fertilizer.

15. In what region is the village the talkative man goes to visit when he encounters the tiger?
(a) The Mempi region.
(b) The mountain region.
(c) The desert region.
(d) The Bengalore region.