2. What is the weather like as Kiguchi and Tsukada walk in Chapter 5?
(a) Clear and cool.
(b) Extremely hot.
(c) Pouring rain.
(d) Freezing.

3. Who is the only person in the restaurant where Numada goes after a shower in Chapter 6?
(a) The waiter.
(b) Enami.
(c) Isobe.
(d) Mr. Sanja.

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

5. What pet does Numada get as an adult that his wife does not like?
(a) A ferret.
(b) A pot-bellied pig.
(c) A hornbill.
(d) A cat.

6. What lie does Isobe tell his wife In Chapter 1?
(a) That he gave the dog to a good friend.
(b) The she will walk again.
(c) That her daughter is coming to visit.
(d) That she will recover after several months in the hospital.

7. What does Enami wonder about concerning Mitsuko in Chapter 7?
(a) What it would be like to sleep with her.
(b) If she is a little insane.
(c) Why she avoids Isobe.
(d) If she is happy with the man she is writing all the time.

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

9. Who/what does Isobe's wife saying she has been talking to?
(a) Her deceased mother.
(b) A hummingbird.
(c) A lizard.
(d) A ginko tree.

10. What wakes Mitsuko from a sound sleep at the seedy hotel?
(a) A train whistle.
(b) The flapping of paper.
(c) A fire bell.
(d) Snoring in the next room.

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

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

13. What group of people does Gaston tell Tsukada about after Tsukada make a confession to Gaston?
(a) A group of climbers in the Andes.
(b) The first group to conquer Everest.
(c) The Donner party.
(d) A group stuck in Siberia with no shelter.

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

15. Who claims to have been Japanese in a previous life?
(a) Enami.
(b) One of the street artists.
(c) A young girl from Virginia.
(d) A monk in a local temple.