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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 comfortable.
(c) It is very clean.
(d) It is decrepit.

2. What is the cause of Isobe's daughter leaving home?
(a) She marries.
(b) Isobe's unresponsiveness.
(c) She goes to school in another country.
(d) She does not like her maternal grandmother.

3. What does Keiko experience a few days before her death?
(a) A sense of certainty that Isobe will be all right.
(b) An out-of-body experience.
(c) A revelation about her daughter.
(d) A deep sadness.

4. What surrounds the Vishvan'tha temple?
(a) A high hedge.
(b) A canal.
(c) Small shops.
(d) A wrought-iron fence.

5. How does Mitsuko enjoy sex with Tsu?
(a) It makes her fall in love with Tsu.
(b) She thinks it is better than he believed sex would be.
(c) She is disturbed by it.
(d) She is detached.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Kiguchi about the Buddhists in India?

2. What is Kiguchi and Tsukada's physical condition in the flashback as they are walking?

3. Where are Kiguchi and Tsukada walking together during Kiguchi's flashback?

4. What does Enami wonder about concerning Mitsuko in Chapter 7?

5. What is Yano's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does Mitsuko eventually marry?

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

6. Why is Li forced to leave the employ of Numada's famly?

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

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

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

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

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