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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sareth's wife kill herself?

2. When did Asanga the Wise and his followers live in solitude at Arankale?

3. In "Ananda," how many generations of a family have lived at the estate where Sarath, Anil, and Ananda work recreating Sailor's head?

4. How old was Lakdasa in "Between Heartbeats"?

5. What illness did Sarath's brother have when Sarath first went to the family estate in Ekneligoda?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Ananda," how do Anil and Ananda interact when Sareth is gone?

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

3. In "Between Heartbeats," what did Anil say about movies in Sri Lankan movie theaters?

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

5. What did Sareth work on in China?

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

7. How did Sareth's wife die?

8. What is the history of the place where Sarath, Anil, and Ananda say in Ekneligoda?

9. In "The Mouse," how did Gamini work, and how did he feel about his work?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gamini had a troubled relationship with Sarath. What was their relationship like? Why was it troubled? How did Gamini feel about the relationship when he saw his brother’s body? How did his brother’s death cause Gamini regret?

Essay Topic 2

Anil had an affair with a married man. How does the author describe the relationship between the two? Why was the relationship doomed from the beginning?

Essay Topic 3

Palipana makes a comment on page 99 that there is no existence without eyes. Why does Palipana use a story about eye painting to make his point about the relationship between eyes and existence? What does Palipana communicate about blindness through the comment that he makes?

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