View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Sanja's line of work?

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

3. Who is Blackie?

4. What does Tsu write in his letters to Mitsuko that she reads when awakened in the middle of the night?

5. Why does Tsu drink until he throws up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Numada's occupation, and what is he considering purchasing in Chapter 4?

2. What information does Enami give the Japanese who are about to go to India on a tour?

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

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

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

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

7. Why do pilgrims go to the Ganges River?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Mitsuko looks for Tsu several times in the book both in France and in India.

Discuss the reasons you think Mitsuko keeps looking for Tsu and if you think she has found what she is looking for. Use examples from Deep River to support your discussion.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 737 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample