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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. In "The Mouse," when Gamini was a boy, what time of day would he take his father a drink in his office?

3. In "Ananda," what time did Sirissa always reach the bridge?

4. In "Between Heartbeats," what was the date of the water tomb that Sareth worked on?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Sareth work on in China?

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

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

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

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

7. In "Ananda," what does Anil discover about Sailor?

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

9. How did Sareth's wife die?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There were specialists who worked in the hospitals in the north, but they had to adapt and work in many areas outside their specialties. Why did specialists have to work in areas outside their specialities? What were scarce in the base hospitals? How did the doctors have to learn to adapt to the conditions and supplies at hand? Why was it important to be adaptable when working in base hospitals?

Essay Topic 2

Sarath belives that truth is “a flame against a sleeping lake of petrol” (136). What does Sarath mean by that phrase? What truth are Anil and Sarath trying to find? When they find the truth, why would it be like tossing a flame in a lake of petrol?

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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