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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Isobe view his wife when she was alive?
(a) As a sensual woman.
(b) As a helpmate and supporter.
(c) As an object.
(d) As an intellectual.

2. What does Numada learn about Isobe when Numada asks his advice about the present?
(a) Isobe's wife is dead.
(b) Isobe was born in Siberia.
(c) Isobe hates Paris.
(d) Isobe has four daughters.

3. Why does Isobe travel out to a village in Chapter 8?
(a) To see if a little girl there might be his reincarnated wife.
(b) To meet up with an old war buddy.
(c) To meet with a holy man.
(d) To inquire after a cousin who used to be a doctor in that village.

4. What is said about the area where Numada is raised?
(a) It has mild winter temperatures.
(b) It is where many of the Russian elite live.
(c) It is a Christian area in a predominantly Hindu country.
(d) It is a lower-class area.

5. About what does Kiguchi think Enami cannot know?
(a) The sorrow of being married to a difficult wife.
(b) The terrible pain of poverty.
(c) The horrors of war.
(d) The desolation of fighting for a cause in which you do not believe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Numada thinking of buying his wife in Chapter 4?

2. Who is Blackie?

3. What do some students try to get Mitsuko to do concerning Tsu in Chapter 3?

4. What does Mitsuko offer to do for Kiguchi in Chapter 8?

5. What happened in the forests the tourists traveled through when the British were still in charge in India?

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