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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. In "Ananda," what does Anil think that Sailor did for work?

2. How old is the house in Wickramasinghe where Sarath and Anil stay in "Ananada"?

3. In "Ananda," after Sarath takes Ananda for medical treatment, what does a foreman come to the estate to do?

4. In "Ananda," how close are Sarath and Anil to Ratnapura before they are stopped by a roadblock?

5. In "Ananda," when Anil finds Ananada drunk and drags him into the house, what does she play on her Walkman?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In "Between Heartbeats," how did Anil and Leaf meet and what did they like to do together?

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

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

9. How did Sareth's wife die?

10. What reasons did Leaf give for moving to New Mexico, and what was the real reason for the move?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Gamini and his wife have very different opinions about his childhood. How does Gamini describe his childhood? How does his wife describe his childhood? How much of what they feel about his childhood is perception and how much is reality? Is either one of them able to see the truth of his childhood?

Essay Topic 3

Gamini and his colleagues went north to work in the hospitals in the north for three-month stints. However, they all ended up staying longer than planned. What were the conditions like for Gamini and his colleagues when they worked in the north? How did their physical skills empower them? How difficult was their work? What lessons did they learn through the hardships?

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