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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 belief does the quote that Tsy reads in Chapter 11 say?
(a) That politics and religion have the same goals.
(b) That God can be found in all religions.
(c) That the poor shall be with you always.
(d) That water is the most patient element.

2. What does Isobe warn Mr. Sanja to forgo photographing?
(a) Sikhs.
(b) Funerals.
(c) Weddings.
(d) Children.

3. What does Isobe learn about the little girl he is trying to locate?
(a) Someone has already claimed that she is their loved one's reincaration.
(b) She is very ill and in the hospital.
(c) She has moved.
(d) She has died.

4. What quote does Tsu read in Chapter 11?
(a) One from Jesus.
(b) One from Mahatma Gandhi.
(c) One from a Buddhist monk Tsu once knew.
(d) One from Indira Gandhi.

5. What does Tsu call the symbolic cross he carries?
(a) The cross of light.
(b) The cross of joy.
(c) The cross of human sorrows.
(d) The cross of compassion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isobe notice about the girls he questions in the search for his wife?

2. What does Kiguchi remark upon concerning the Americans and Japanese?

3. How does Numada repay an animal that gave its life for Numada?

4. Where does Tsu think his Onion resides?

5. What part did the Sikhs on Gandhi's security detail have in the events of the day in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. What quote does Tsu read of Mahatma Gandhi's?

2. What significance is there to the next day, October 31st?

3. What does Tsu feel he is doing when he carries an old, dying woman to the river?

4. What do Mitsuko and Numada witness, and what are Mitsuko's feelings about the event?

5. How does Sanja think he will make a name for himself as a photographer?

6. What does Numada do with the myna bird he bought?

7. How does Mitsuko feel as she joins the Hindus in a prayer at the river?

8. Why does Tsu leave Mitsuko after talking briefly with her?

9. What does Isobe witness as he is getting drunk and wandering the streets in Chapter 10?

10. When do the Hindus and Tsu rise in the morning?

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