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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 Enami's role in the group?

2. What lines the route of Kiguchi and Tsukada's retreat?

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

4. What happens when some coal goes missing at Numada's home when he is a boy?

5. What does Isobe wonder about as he sits in his hotel room in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is helping to care for Isobe, and what does he ask her not to tell Keiko?

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

3. What happens when Mitsuko tires of sleeping with Tsu?

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

5. What happens to the myna bird Numada acquires, as described in Chapter 4?

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

7. Why do pilgrims go to the Ganges River?

8. About what does Mrs. Sanja complain while riding on the bus?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foreshadowing is used in almost all works of fiction. Discuss the following:

What is foreshadowing? Identify three instances of foreshadowing in Deep River and what they foreshadow. How does foreshadowing contribute to a book's suspense? Are there any incidences that you thought foreshadows a future event, but it does not do so?

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:

Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such. Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such. Which three secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

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