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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 do the soldiers eat as they are walking in Chapter 5?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Bread and jerky.
(c) C-rations.
(d) Maggots.

2. What do some students try to get Mitsuko to do concerning Tsu in Chapter 3?
(a) Trick him.
(b) Convert him to Catholicism.
(c) Convert him back to Buddhism.
(d) Seduce him.

3. What do ill pilgrims have done to their bodies when they die?
(a) Cremation and scattering ashes on the mountaintop.
(b) Their ashes sent back to their families.
(c) Cremation and their ashes are scattered on the Ganges.
(d) Buried in the forest above the waterfall.

4. How long after death do Buddhists believe a soul is reborn?
(a) It depends on what the soul chooses.
(b) Within one year after death.
(c) By the 49th day.
(d) The soul must wait at least until all those in the immediate family are dead.

5. What is the Kultur Heim?
(a) A football stadium.
(b) A chapel.
(c) An Indian restaurant.
(d) A hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ailment does Isobe's wife have?

2. What is Numada thinking of buying his wife in Chapter 4?

3. Where are Kiguchi and Enami when Chapter 5 opens?

4. About what does Kiguchi think Enami cannot know?

5. What pet does Numada get as an adult that his wife does not like?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Mitsuko force Tsu to drink at a party, and what happens?

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

7. What does Numada say to Enami about the trees in India?

8. What story does Gaston tell Tsukada when he confesses about the meat in Burma?

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

10. What does Kiguchi ask Enami about doing while Kiguchi is in India?

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