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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kiguchi ask the tour guide about?
(a) About souls in a holding area in the Himalayas.
(b) About a holy man who is almost 300 years old.
(c) About the proper way to address a widow in Nepal.
(d) About funerals for veterans.

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

3. What is Mitsuko determined to make Tsu do in their school days?
(a) Change his major.
(b) Date her sister.
(c) Confront his parents.
(d) Renounce his belief in God.

4. What is the Kultur Heim?
(a) A football stadium.
(b) An Indian restaurant.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A chapel.

5. How long after death do Buddhists believe a soul is reborn?
(a) The soul must wait at least until all those in the immediate family are dead.
(b) It depends on what the soul chooses.
(c) By the 49th day.
(d) Within one year after death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Numada learn about Isobe when Numada asks his advice about the present?

2. Who/what does Isobe's wife saying she has been talking to?

3. About what does Kiguchi think Enami cannot know?

4. What happens when some coal goes missing at Numada's home when he is a boy?

5. What surprises Kiguchi about the Buddhists in India?

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