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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Tsu doing at the river in Chapter 8?
(a) Carrying dead and dying people.
(b) Looking for Mitsuko.
(c) Selling prayer wheels.
(d) Meeting with groups of foreigners.

2. How does Tsu feel about Jesus?
(a) Dubious as to all the claims about him.
(b) Mildly interested in Jesus.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Enthralled.

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

4. In Chapter 13, what does it say that Indira Gandhi fails to do?
(a) Lead the country into prosperity.
(b) Gain the trust of her people.
(c) Care about the outcasts.
(d) Bring harmony to India.

5. Why are the Sanjas annoyed with the other tourists at the hotel?
(a) Because they did not invite the couple to play cards.
(b) Because they want to leave India early.
(c) Because the others gather in one room to talk and do not tell the Sanja's.
(d) Because of their cautious attitude.

6. What does Isobe plan to do the next day after his visit to the fortuneteller?
(a) Leave India.
(b) Go to a Buddhist temple.
(c) Go back and see if the fortuneteller has any information for him.
(d) Call Keiko's sister.

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

8. Who does Mitsuko learn is also staying in the city where she is?
(a) Numada.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) A well-known Baba.

9. Whose name does Kiguchi call out in his sleep in Chapter 8?
(a) Gaston.
(b) Tsukada.
(c) Keiko.
(d) Numada.

10. Why does Isobe travel out to a village in Chapter 8?
(a) To meet up with an old war buddy.
(b) To see if a little girl there might be his reincarnated wife.
(c) To inquire after a cousin who used to be a doctor in that village.
(d) To meet with a holy man.

11. What has Kiguchi read about the concept of good and evil?
(a) That they only exist in the physical.
(b) That they are polar opposites and do not touch.
(c) That they are intertwined.
(d) That they are an illusion.

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

13. Who warns Mr. Sanja to stop taking pictures?
(a) Some soldiers.
(b) Tsu.
(c) Some family members of the deceased.
(d) The police.

14. What do the Catholic priests tell Tsu about believing in the quote from Chapter 11?
(a) He needs to re-study the passages and understand the real meaning to the quote.
(b) He should leave the Catholic church.
(c) He is a blasphemer and will spend eternity in hell if he does not change.
(d) He is wise beyond his years.

15. What does Isobe warn Mr. Sanja to forgo photographing?
(a) Children.
(b) Funerals.
(c) Weddings.
(d) Sikhs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Enami going for a doctor in Chapter 8?

2. What quote does Tsu read in Chapter 11?

3. About what has Kiguchi been reading in Chapter 12?

4. About what does Kiguchi talk to Mitsuko when they are at the river in Chapter 12?

5. When does Mitsuko awaken from a nap in Chapter 8?

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