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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to young children who die in the town where the tourists are in Chapter 7?
(a) They are set afloat in reed boats on the river.
(b) They are cremated.
(c) They are buried in caskets under the Ganges.
(d) They are buried under a huge baobab tree.

2. What does the puppy do that Numada brings home as a boy?
(a) Avoids Numada's father.
(b) Pees on all the rugs.
(c) Whines at night.
(d) Chews up the family's stash of money.

3. Why does Numada go into the hospital?
(a) He as an infected leg.
(b) He has to have heart surgery.
(c) He has cancer.
(d) He has tuberculosis.

4. Who is Ch'mund'?
(a) An old beggar woman in the temple.
(b) A police officer.
(c) A Hindu goddess.
(d) A fakir.

5. Where does Tsu take the indigent dead in Chapter 10?
(a) He does not take them anywhere as no one will accept them.
(b) To a crematorium.
(c) To a Catholic charity for burial.
(d) To a pauper's field.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isobe wonder about as he sits in his hotel room in Chapter 7?

2. What was the occupation of the woman who was the opposite of Keiko with whom Isobe had an affair?

3. What does Isobe notice about the girls he questions in the search for his wife?

4. What voices does Numada say he has sensed in India?

5. What does Isobe observe a group of Indians do in Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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