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

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

3. How did Isobe view his wife when she was alive?
(a) As a helpmate and supporter.
(b) As a sensual woman.
(c) As an intellectual.
(d) As an object.

4. What is the nationality of the tourists on the bus in Chapter 6?
(a) Chinese.
(b) A mixture of European, Japanese and American.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Korean.

5. What does Enami become irritated about concerning the Sanja's in Chapter 6?
(a) Their condescending attitude towards India and Hinduism.
(b) They keep asking the bus to stop for pictures.
(c) They refuse to buy anything from the local merchants.
(d) They tip poorly every time they have a meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kiguchi ask the tour guide about?

2. What is Enami's role in the group?

3. What does Keiko urge Isobe to do as she comes out of a coma for a minute?

4. What do ill pilgrims have done to their bodies when they die?

5. What ailment does Isobe's wife have?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Mitsuko eventually marry?

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

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

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

6. For what does Isobe tell Mitsuko he is searching?

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

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

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

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

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