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

2. Who is Moïra?

3. What nickname do Tsu and Mitsuko give God when Mitsuko sees Tsu on her honeymoon?

4. About what does Kiguchi think about when the tourists are driven through the jungle in Chapter 6?

5. What does Enami become irritated about concerning the Sanja's in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Isobe learn about his wife in Chapter 1?

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

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

6. Why dose Enami become irritated with the Sanja couple in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Often, authors will write about what they know, and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Shusaku Endo. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Endo's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Endo's probable agenda concerning that idea.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

Define plot and include the definitions of the most important elements of a plot. Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not? Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Deep River, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot? Give a brief synopsis of any important sub-plots.

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