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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Sanja think of the bus that is transporting the tourists?
(a) The does not express an opinion about the bus.
(b) It is very clean.
(c) It is decrepit.
(d) It is very comfortable.

2. What does Isobe wonder about as he sits in his hotel room in Chapter 7?
(a) If he has a soul.
(b) If there is truth in reincarnation.
(c) If he loved his wife.
(d) If he wants to return home.

3. What does Kiguchi remember concerning his time as a soldier?
(a) The belief that he was doing the right thing.
(b) A female nurse from the enemy side.
(c) It was not as horrific as some of his more recent life.
(d) His trials as a soldier.

4. What is said about the area where Numada is raised?
(a) It has mild winter temperatures.
(b) It is where many of the Russian elite live.
(c) It is a lower-class area.
(d) It is a Christian area in a predominantly Hindu country.

5. Where are Kiguchi and Tsukada walking together during Kiguchi's flashback?
(a) On the Highway of Death.
(b) In the mountains.
(c) Down the main street of a small village.
(d) Along a seashore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when some coal goes missing at Numada's home when he is a boy?

2. What nickname do Tsu and Mitsuko give God when Mitsuko sees Tsu on her honeymoon?

3. What does Keiko urge Isobe to do as she comes out of a coma for a minute?

4. How does Mr. Sanja see this trip as part of his work?

5. What is Mitsuko determined to make Tsu do in their school days?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is helping to care for Isobe, and what does he ask her not to tell Keiko?

2. What information does Enami give the Japanese who are about to go to India on a tour?

3. What does Keiko ask Isobe to do as she wakes briefly from a coma before she dies?

4. What is Enami's warning to Mr. Sanja?

5. How is Tsu thought of by the French priests?

6. About what does Mrs. Sanja complain while riding on the bus?

7. What does the hornbill forced upon Numada by a pet-store owner come to mean to Numada?

8. What does Kiguchi think regarding Enami and the horrors Kiguchi exprienced in Burma?

9. Why dose Enami become irritated with the Sanja couple in Chapter 6?

10. What does Tsukada confess to Kiguchi about how Tsukada managed to feed Kiguchi during the war in Burma?

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