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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many passes did it take Andrew MacPhail to put the Raja to sleep?
(a) Two hundred and eleven
(b) Two hundred, fifteen
(c) One hundred, thirty seven
(d) Two hundred and eight

2. How did Will view people suddenly?
(a) As apes
(b) As flies
(c) As ants
(d) As phantom maggots

3. What is the first word(s) Will hears when he wakes up?
(a) Hello
(b) Good Morning
(c) Hey you! Wake up!
(d) Attention

4. What main idea shifted the population into accepting the second reform?
(a) Painless surgery
(b) The knowledge they would be healthier as a result
(c) Painless childbirth
(d) Medicine to increase lifespan

5. What does Appu's lover think of her mental state?
(a) She is completely neurotic
(b) She is abnormally sane
(c) She is slightly crazy
(d) She's a closet psychotic

6. Who finds Will?
(a) Mary and Terrance
(b) Maurice and Theresa
(c) Marcie and Theodore
(d) Mary and Tom

7. Why was Will headed to Pala?
(a) To find himself
(b) To pave the way to the rich oil deposits there
(c) To document and take pictures of rare species of birds
(d) To introduce western culture to the indigenous people there

8. How many months did it take Babs to tire of Will?
(a) Six
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) Eight

9. How many waves of invasion passed Pala by?
(a) Four
(b) Six
(c) Three
(d) Five

10. What do the Palanese teach the young ones to engage in that Murugan resisted?
(a) Sex
(b) War games
(c) Satanism
(d) Sodomy

11. Will meets the young man destined to be leader of Pala in the company of what man?
(a) Colonel Dirksa
(b) Mr. Wellington
(c) Colonel Dipa
(d) Mr. Stoffers

12. How does Will arrive on the island?
(a) He went there for a vacation
(b) He crash landed there and was pulled from the plane wreckage
(c) He is there studying the fauna
(d) He was marooned by shipwreck

13. What folly were the Raja and Andrew contemplating for the people of Pala?
(a) The folly of Demosthenes
(b) The folly of Kant
(c) The folly of Blake
(d) The folly of Nietsche

14. What was the habit the old Raja couldn't break?
(a) Anointing a phallic symbol with melted butter
(b) Praying to Krishna
(c) Stuttering
(d) Picking his nose

15. What does Mr. Bahu say the plague of the twentieth century is?
(a) Cancer
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) The Gray Life
(d) AIDS

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Pala unpopular?

2. What is the major trouble for Pala?

3. Does Murugan follow these practices?

4. How many children were in James and Janet's family?

5. What does the doctor remind Will to do at 11?

(see the answer keys)

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