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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mr. Sanja's line of work?
(a) Photographer.
(b) Professor.
(c) Car sales.
(d) Factory owner.

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

3. How many affairs did Isobe have during his marriage?
(a) Numerous.
(b) Four or five.
(c) One.
(d) Two or three.

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

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

6. What does Ch'mund' do despite being sick and emaciated?
(a) Give her milk to children.
(b) Dance.
(c) Give away charms.
(d) Sing.

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

8. What was the occupation of the woman who was the opposite of Keiko with whom Isobe had an affair?
(a) Restaurant owner.
(b) Prostitute.
(c) Housewife.
(d) Actress.

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

10. What lines the route of Kiguchi and Tsukada's retreat?
(a) Large palm trees.
(b) People cheering.
(c) Dead and dying soldiers.
(d) Starving civilians.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enami become irritated about concerning the Sanja's in Chapter 6?

2. What do some students try to get Mitsuko to do concerning Tsu in Chapter 3?

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

4. What is the weather like as Kiguchi and Tsukada walk in Chapter 5?

5. Who is the only person in the restaurant where Numada goes after a shower in Chapter 6?

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