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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 was the common form of transportation in Calcutta described by Theroux in Chapter 16?
(a) Bicycle.
(b) Moped.
(c) Taxi.
(d) Rickshaw.

2. What service was common for tourists in Bangkok?
(a) Massage parlors.
(b) Tattoo parlors.
(c) Expensive spas.
(d) Fancy hotels.

3. What was the Vietnamese woman doing with the half-American baby on the train through Vietnam?
(a) She was trying to get money.
(b) She was a prostitute looking for work.
(c) She was trying to give the baby to Theroux.
(d) She was trying to get passage out of Vietnam.

4. How much time did Theroux have to board the train to Sapporo in Aomori?
(a) One hour.
(b) Thirty minutes.
(c) Fifteen minutes.
(d) Five minutes.

5. What was the name of the American English teacher in Hakodate?
(a) Chester.
(b) Matt.
(c) Carl.
(d) Charles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time was dinner served at Bernard's mansion?

2. Where did the tattooed American think he needed to go to earn a lot of money?

3. What did Theroux witness the Japanese workers doing at the National Railways office?

4. What did Mr. Lau sell when not working as a civil servant?

5. What sites did the tourism director, Mr. Ngoc, try to advertise to draw visitors?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Theroux describe the clothes laundering he witnessed from the trains in Asia?

2. What are the differences between Japanese and American consumers?

3. How did Westerners and Japanese react to the suicide of the Japanese writer, Yukio Mishima?

4. Why did Theroux describe Bangkok as a city for transients?

5. How was the American woman living in Sapporo welcomed into the Japanese fold in the story retold in Chapter 27?

6. How did Theroux feel about the fast trains between cities in Japan?

7. Describe the Kali religious festival from Chapter 16.

8. Why did Theroux describe the Burmese government as a Buddhist bureaucracy?

9. Describe Theroux's visit to the tourism office in Vietnam.

10. Describe the Japanese obsession with the high cost of living in Japan.

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