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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 is Enami's role in the group?
(a) Mechanic.
(b) Tourist.
(c) Driver.
(d) Guide.

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

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

4. What is Mitsuko determined to make Tsu do in their school days?
(a) Confront his parents.
(b) Renounce his belief in God.
(c) Change his major.
(d) Date her sister.

5. What does Numada ask about the existence of in the area where they are?
(a) Laws preventing child labor.
(b) Animal and bird sanctuaries.
(c) Laws prohibiting other religions.
(d) Museums.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tsu write in his letters to Mitsuko that she reads when awakened in the middle of the night?

2. What does Miss Naruse think Keiko already knows?

3. What instrument does Tsu play?

4. Where do Mitsuko and her new husband go for their honeymoon?

5. Who does Numada's mother hire to help her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Isobe learn about his wife in Chapter 1?

2. Who is Enami's favorite Hindu goddess?

3. What do some of the students try to get Mitsuko to do concerning Tsu in Chapter 3, and to what is that likened?

4. How does Mitsuko feel about her time in the hospital?

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

6. What happens to the myna bird Numada acquires, as described in Chapter 4?

7. Why do pilgrims go to the Ganges River?

8. In Kiguchi's flashback, how do the soldiers feed themselves along the Highway of Death?

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

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

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