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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. Where did Kiguchi fight during the war?

2. What voices does Numada say he has sensed in India?

3. What is Mrs. Sanja's attitude towards the native children?

4. Who are the Sanja's?

5. How did Isobe view his wife when she was alive?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Li forced to leave the employ of Numada's famly?

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

5. What does the hornbill forced upon Numada by a pet-store owner come to mean to Numada?

6. Why do pilgrims go to the Ganges River?

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

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

9. Who is Enami's favorite Hindu goddess?

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

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

Isobe cannot let go of his wife, in part because he never fulfilled their connection in life.

Discuss what you think is meant by the above statement. Use examples from Deep River to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Deep River. Trace and analyze one major theme of Deep River. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

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