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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom does Isobe also lie when he leaves his wife's hospital room and goes home?
(a) The neighbor.
(b) His son.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His mother-in-law.

3. Who is Moïra?
(a) Mitsuko's best friend.
(b) Tsu's sister.
(c) Tsu's favorite teacher.
(d) A literary character.

4. What does Keiko experience a few days before her death?
(a) A sense of certainty that Isobe will be all right.
(b) An out-of-body experience.
(c) A deep sadness.
(d) A revelation about her daughter.

5. What surprises Kiguchi about the Buddhists in India?
(a) They are so violent.
(b) They do not practice regular meditation.
(c) There are so few of them.
(d) They do not believe in reincarnation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kiguchi ask the tour guide about?

2. What does Joseph do to Moïra?

3. What does the hospital delay doing in hopes of giving Keiko a longer life?

4. What does Tsu say when Mitsuko questions him about his religious beliefs?

5. What does Keiko urge Isobe to do as she comes out of a coma for a minute?

(see the answer key)

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