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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Rani believe will save humanity?
(a) Her pseudo religion "Cult of the Soul"
(b) Homosexual tendencies
(c) Her pseudo religion "Crusade of the Spirit"
(d) A filleting of those who affront the will of God

2. What is the title of the book the doctor gives to Will?
(a) "Brave New World"
(b) "Notes on What's What, and on What it Might be Reasonable to Do About What's What"
(c) Notes on Who's What, and on What it Might be Reasonable to Do to Them"
(d) "King Lear"

3. What does Susila compare children to?
(a) Young squirrels
(b) Manichean dualists
(c) Puppies
(d) Mynah birds

4. How does Appu think that American doctors view their patients?
(a) People are either patients or potential patients, there are no healthy people
(b) As though they have only a mouth and an anus
(c) As sources of early retirement
(d) As walking money bags

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

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

7. Who wrote the poem that Will found in the book?
(a) Susila MacPhail
(b) Dugald MacPhail
(c) Dr. MacPhail
(d) Radha Appu

8. How many children were in James and Janet's family?
(a) Three
(b) Four
(c) Six
(d) Two

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

10. What is SD?
(a) Self-Determination
(b) Sensual Dance
(c) Soothing Dialogue
(d) Sexual Discrimination

11. What does Part 2 state about people?
(a) That people are stupid and must be shepherded
(b) People who do good deeds are good people and this should be the foundation of their society
(c) That people need to be watched at all times for signs of betrayal
(d) People who do good deeds are good people, but people can't be good all the time

12. How does Susila compare the grief of her husband's passing?
(a) A steady pain, like a penance to remind her of him
(b) Like a phantom limb that hurts even after being amputated
(c) Like a black hole that sucks all joy from life
(d) It doesn't hurt after awhile, time heals all

13. What does the little book state about faith?
(a) It states that faith resides in the justified capacity to know who exactly we are
(b) Faith is only to be understood by the servants of God
(c) Faith is to be interpreted and wholeheartedly followed by the Rani
(d) It states that Faith is the oppression of the masses, and that faith in oneself is the key to salvation

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

15. What does Mr. Bahu want to be paid to set up the deal for Lord Aldehyde?
(a) Ten times what Aldehyde is paying Will
(b) Five times what Aldehyde is paying Will
(c) Half of what Aldehyde will be paying the Raja
(d) Half of what Aldehyde is paying Will

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Will have an affair with?

2. Why does Will think that Joe Aldehyde gave him a job?

3. Who was the person Appu had always loved and who loved her?

4. What is the first culture difference Will perceives on this island?

5. What languages does the answer to #26 speak?

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