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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mitsuko promise to do while Enami goes for the doctor?
(a) Go down and tell the bus driver they will be delayed.
(b) Find some ice for Mrs. Sanja's ankle.
(c) Watch the Sanja's child.
(d) Stay with Kiguchi.

2. What does Mitsuko say about the Ganges?
(a) It is just a river.
(b) It is deep enough to embrace everyone.
(c) It is holy.
(d) It is dirty.

3. What does Tsu call the symbolic cross he carries?
(a) The cross of joy.
(b) The cross of compassion.
(c) The cross of human sorrows.
(d) The cross of light.

4. In Chapter 8, how many of the tourists decide to stay in the city rather than going on with the bus?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

5. Where does Mr. Sanja plan to go to take some pictures in Chapter 13?
(a) The zoo.
(b) To the Ganges.
(c) Where a protest is being held by Sikhs.
(d) Where a protest is being held by Hindus.

6. What does Tsu think his Onion would do with the dead?
(a) Transmogrify them.
(b) Forgive them.
(c) Resurrect them.
(d) The same as Tsu.

7. To what does Tsu compare the Ganges?
(a) The love of his Onion.
(b) False hope.
(c) False prophets.
(d) Eternity.

8. Who asks Mitsuko about her religion?
(a) No one.
(b) Tsu.
(c) An American woman.
(d) Isobe.

9. About what has Kiguchi been reading in Chapter 12?
(a) Sikhs.
(b) WWII.
(c) Hindu.
(d) Buddhism.

10. Where does Tsu return at the opening of Chapter 11?
(a) A stone house.
(b) The church.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) The river.

11. Why does Kiguchi chant what he chants in Chapter 12?
(a) To try to find a connection to something outside himself.
(b) To show Mitsuko what it sounds like to chant.
(c) To honor his friend and other soldiers who died in the war.
(d) To ask for a vision.

12. About what does Kiguchi talk to Mitsuko when they are at the river in Chapter 12?
(a) His desire to stay in India longer.
(b) His skepticism about the river's attraction.
(c) His war experiences.
(d) He belief that calling a river sacred is nonsense.

13. About what are the tourists concerned after the situation about Gandhi becomes known?
(a) That there will be riots and martial law.
(b) That the motels will be stricter about who can stay there.
(c) That some of the tourist sites will be closed.
(d) That an epidemic of the same disease will begin.

14. What does Isobe notice about the girls he questions in the search for his wife?
(a) They will tell him what he wants to hear for money.
(b) They are afraid of him.
(c) They are all poor and beg.
(d) They deny that being his wife.

15. How does Tsu respond to the priests' words, as described in Chapter 11?
(a) He decides to leave the church.
(b) He decides he cannot leave the church.
(c) He starts studying the passage from which the quote came.
(d) He prays for enlightenment.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long has Tsu believed the general idea of the quote he reads in Chapter 11?

2. What does Mitsuko imitate when she is trying to offer comfort to someone?

3. What wakes Mitsuko at the opening of Chapter 8?

4. What is Mitsuko's reply to being asked about her religion?

5. What is Isobe doing when Mitsuko and Numada return to the hotel in Chapter 9?

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