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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 Mitsuko say about the Ganges?
(a) It is holy.
(b) It is deep enough to embrace everyone.
(c) It is dirty.
(d) It is just a river.

2. What does Mitsuko ask the nuns that she sees carting away a dying woman?
(a) If the woman will be all right.
(b) If she can help them.
(c) If they have somewhere to take the woman.
(d) Why they do the kind of work they do.

3. What does Mitsuko promise to do while Enami goes for the doctor?
(a) Go down and tell the bus driver they will be delayed.
(b) Find some ice for Mrs. Sanja's ankle.
(c) Watch the Sanja's child.
(d) Stay with Kiguchi.

4. When does Mitsuko awaken from a nap in Chapter 8?
(a) When the doctor comes to check on her.
(b) When Kiguchi calls out.
(c) When the tourists return from the Ganges.
(d) When Enami brings her dinner.

5. Where is Tsu staying in Chapter 9?
(a) At a Catholic seminary.
(b) At a seedy hotel near the Ganges.
(c) At a Hindu ashram.
(d) At a youth hostel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Sanja plan to make a name for himself?

2. What does Isobe warn Mr. Sanja to forgo photographing?

3. Where does Tsu take the indigent dead in Chapter 10?

4. Whose name does Kiguchi call out in his sleep in Chapter 8?

5. What does Tsu find when he leaves the building and goes into the streets in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of what is Tsu capable only in his dreams?

2. Where does Isobe go despite concerns about civil unrest?

3. What does Mitsuko hear Kiguchi say in his feverish sleep?

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

5. What did the Catholic priests tell Tsu he should do if he believed Gandhi's quote, and what does Tsu do?

6. Why is wrong with Kiguchi in Chapter 8, and how is Mitsuko involved?

7. What has Kiguchi not done that he had planned to do when coming to India, and what is his consolation?

8. What does Isobe think about the fortuneteller he visits in Chapter 9?

9. What does Tsu say when Mitsuko asks if he believes in reincarnation?

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

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