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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 did Isobe never expect concerning Keiko's death?
(a) That he would be so devastated by her death.
(b) That she would die so quickly after becoming ill.
(c) That he would be so detached from her death.
(d) That she would seem to welcome death.

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

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

4. What wakes Mitsuko from a sound sleep at the seedy hotel?
(a) The flapping of paper.
(b) A fire bell.
(c) A train whistle.
(d) Snoring in the next room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is said about the area where Numada is raised?

2. What ailment does Isobe's wife have?

3. Why does Tsu drink until he throws up?

4. Who are the Sanja's?

5. Where did Numada grow up as a child?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do pilgrims go to the Ganges River?

4. Who is Enami's favorite Hindu goddess?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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