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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. In "Ananda," what does Sarath say is the only thing that is state-of-the-art in Sri Lanka?
(a) Hospitals.
(b) Schools.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Roads.

2. In "The Mouse," how many years did Gamini worked up north in the peripheral hospitals?
(a) More than 3 years.
(b) About 2 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 1 year.

3. In "Ananda," how many generations of a family have lived at the estate where Sarath, Anil, and Ananda work recreating Sailor's head?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

4. In "The Mouse," who did Gamini refuse to be photographed with?
(a) Visiting politician.
(b) Family of a wounded boy.
(c) Family of a wounded girl.
(d) President.

5. When Gamini was at the beach in "The Mouse," how old were the wounded that gunmen took him to to treat?
(a) 20s and 30s.
(b) 16, 17, and younger.
(c) Mid-30s.
(d) Mid-20s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sareth's wife kill herself?

2. In "The Mouse," at what hotel did Gamini stay when he was recovering from exhaustion?

3. In the water tomb that Sareth remembers finding, how many bodies of females musicians were in the tomb?

4. In "Ananda," how many murder charges have been made during the troubles?

5. In "Ananda," how long has it been since Sarath was last at Wickramasinghe?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Between Heartbeats," how poor were people in the village where there was a massacre?

2. What surgery was Gamini working on in "Between Heartbeats," when victims of a massacre were brought to the hospital?

3. In "Ananda," after Arankale was deserted for 400 years, what was it like when humans returned?

4. What type of cases did Gamini see when he worked at the base hospital at Polonnaruwa during his last year in the northeast?

5. How did Gamini and his wife view his childhood?

6. In "Ananda," why does Ananda spend the first morning in the village?

7. In "The Mouse," how long had Gamini and the other doctors he worked with in the northeast worked there and how long had they planned to work there?

8. What happened to Ananda's wife, Sirissa?

9. In "Ananda," what happens when Sarath, Anil, and Ananda are stopped at a roadblock?

10. What did Gamini do shortly after his wife left their marriage?

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