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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in the forests the tourists traveled through when the British were still in charge in India?

2. What instrument does Tsu play?

3. What is Mitsuko determined to make Tsu do in their school days?

4. What does Enami say about the fighting where Kiguchi was in the war?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Kiguchi ask Enami about doing while Kiguchi is in India?

3. What does the snake charmer in the garden do?

4. What story does Gaston tell Tsukada when he confesses about the meat in Burma?

5. Why do pilgrims go to the Ganges River?

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

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

8. What is Enami's warning to Mr. Sanja?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action-driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

What do you think it means to say that a plot is character-driven or action-driven? Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why? Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character are developed to the same degree? Why or why not? What type of plot do you think Deep River is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

Do you think most people want a happy ending in a novel? Do you think Deep River would qualify as a novel with a happy ending? Why or why not? What do you think are three reasons to read fiction and do you think Deep River fulfills these three reasons? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Reincarnation is talked about throughout the book.

Discuss what you think are the characters’ and the author’s view on reincarnation. Use examples from Deep River to support your discussion.

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