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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 the puppy do that Numada brings home as a boy?
(a) Whines at night.
(b) Pees on all the rugs.
(c) Avoids Numada's father.
(d) Chews up the family's stash of money.

2. What does Tsukada confess to Kiguchi about the meat Tsukada brought him?
(a) It was stolen from a family with many children.
(b) Tsukada killed someone to get the meat.
(c) He has nothing of import to confess to Tsukada about the meat.
(d) It was human flesh.

3. Why does Kiguchi expect to be left in the jungle?
(a) He is supposed to set mines for the pursuing enemy.
(b) He is supposed to be a rear guard.
(c) He has angered their captors.
(d) He is too ill to continue walking.

4. About what does Kiguchi think about when the tourists are driven through the jungle in Chapter 6?
(a) His war experience in Burma.
(b) The jungles near his home.
(c) His last trip to Vietnam.
(d) An Indian girl he once fell in love with.

5. For what does Isobe say he is searching in Chapter 6?
(a) Someone to prove that the soul lives after death.
(b) The reincarnated soul of his deceased wife.
(c) Peace.
(d) Answers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Numada learn about Isobe when Numada asks his advice about the present?

2. Who is Moïra?

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

4. What is the Kultur Heim?

5. Why does Tsu drink until he throws up?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Enami's favorite Hindu goddess?

2. How does Numada cope with his parents' divorce proceedings?

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

4. What thoughts go through Isobe's mind about his wife as he sits in his hotel room in Chapter 7?

5. What does Tsukada ask of Kiguchi ten years after the two encounter each other in Tokyo?

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

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

8. What happens when Mitsuko tires of sleeping with Tsu?

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

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

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