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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the puppy do that Numada brings home as a boy?
(a) Chews up the family's stash of money.
(b) Pees on all the rugs.
(c) Avoids Numada's father.
(d) Whines at night.

4. What does Tsu do every day after class?
(a) Plays football.
(b) Writes his parents.
(c) Goes to the chapel to pray.
(d) Practices the piano.

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 cat.
(d) A hornbill.

6. What does Joseph do to Moïra?
(a) Leaves her and breaks her heart.
(b) Sets her up with his best friend.
(c) Marries her.
(d) Murders her.

7. 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.

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

9. What does Mrs. Sanja do constantly on the bus?
(a) Talk about her dead son.
(b) Hum to herself.
(c) Snore.
(d) Complain.

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

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

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

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

14. What does Tsu write in his letters to Mitsuko that she reads when awakened in the middle of the night?
(a) His hope that he will someday know who he is.
(b) His belief in God.
(c) His desire for her to come to him.
(d) His loss of faith.

15. What instrument does Tsu play?
(a) Piano.
(b) Flute.
(c) Violin.
(d) Sitar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Naruse Mitsuko think about after Isobe leaves the informational meeting?

2. What happened in the forests the tourists traveled through when the British were still in charge in India?

3. What lie does Isobe tell his wife In Chapter 1?

4. How many affairs did Isobe have during his marriage?

5. About what does Kiguchi think Enami cannot know?

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