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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kiguchi and Tsukada's physical condition in the flashback as they are walking?
(a) Malnourished and starving.
(b) Weak but not failing.
(c) Fine.
(d) Strong and robust.

2. What is the cause of Isobe's daughter leaving home?
(a) Isobe's unresponsiveness.
(b) She does not like her maternal grandmother.
(c) She marries.
(d) She goes to school in another country.

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

4. What do ill pilgrims have done to their bodies when they die?
(a) Cremation and their ashes are scattered on the Ganges.
(b) Buried in the forest above the waterfall.
(c) Their ashes sent back to their families.
(d) Cremation and scattering ashes on the mountaintop.

5. What does the hospital delay doing in hopes of giving Keiko a longer life?
(a) Starting an experimental drug program.
(b) Giving her morphine.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Surgery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does Isobe also lie when he leaves his wife's hospital room and goes home?

3. What nickname do Tsu and Mitsuko give God when Mitsuko sees Tsu on her honeymoon?

4. What is the nationality of the tourists on the bus in Chapter 6?

5. What is Enami's role in the group?

(see the answer key)

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