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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who comforts Numada when his parents are going through the process of a divorce?
(a) His dog.
(b) His favorite teacher at school.
(c) His best friend whose parents are already divorced.
(d) His older sister.

4. How is Tsu described in Chapter 3?
(a) Vivacious and talkative.
(b) Arrogant.
(c) Athletic and strong.
(d) Awkward and religious.

5. Who stays with Kiguchi in the jungle?
(a) Three of his still-living squad members.
(b) A squad of bomb experts.
(c) No one.
(d) Just Tsukada.

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

7. What nickname do Tsu and Mitsuko give God when Mitsuko sees Tsu on her honeymoon?
(a) The Blind Alley.
(b) Umpire.
(c) The Onion.
(d) Banker.

8. What do the Sanja's ask Numada to do in Chapter 6?
(a) Show them the gardens.
(b) Sit at their table.
(c) Help them mail a package.
(d) Take their picture.

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

10. What does Numada do with his puppy when told to get rid of it?
(a) Shoots it.
(b) Gives it to his best friend.
(c) Releases it into the woods.
(d) Trains it in secret.

11. What does the snake charmer have in his performance?
(a) A cobra and a monkey.
(b) A cobra, a mongoose, and a two-headed snake.
(c) Two mongoose and a hornbill.
(d) Just an old, toothless cobra.

12. Where do pilgrims come to bathe?
(a) A mountain lake in the Himalayas.
(b) A waterfall that is said to cry Jesus' tears.
(c) The Ganges River.
(d) A spring known for miraculous healings.

13. About what does Kiguchi think about when the tourists are driven through the jungle in Chapter 6?
(a) His war experience in Burma.
(b) The jungles near his home.
(c) His last trip to Vietnam.
(d) An Indian girl he once fell in love with.

14. What does Keiko dream that Isobe does?
(a) Flies away with her.
(b) Calls and talks to his daughter.
(c) Marries another woman.
(d) Leaves the stove on.

15. How does Mitsuko enjoy sex with Tsu?
(a) She is disturbed by it.
(b) She is detached.
(c) It makes her fall in love with Tsu.
(d) She thinks it is better than he believed sex would be.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kiguchi expect to be left in the jungle?

2. What does the puppy do that Numada brings home as a boy?

3. What instrument does Tsu play?

4. What does Kiguchi remember concerning his time as a soldier?

5. About what does Kiguchi think Enami cannot know?

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