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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first culture difference Will perceives on this island?
(a) Children are not coddled for their injuries
(b) Children are given strict penalties for stepping out of line
(c) Children are treated as adults
(d) The civilization is tribal in nature

2. What does the boy gesture to Will?
(a) To fornicate himself
(b) To come with him
(c) To act as though they've never met
(d) To get up and get out

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

4. What is Will's perception of the relationship between Murugan and Dipa?
(a) That Murugan is selling out his people
(b) That they are lovers
(c) That Dipa and Murugan are planning an assault on a neighboring island
(d) That Dipa associates with children

5. What was the image that nurse Appu saw in her minds eye that made her laugh
(a) A bear on a unicycle
(b) A pedantic teacher on too much caffeine
(c) Their kitten chasing yarn
(d) The pyramids in white cloth

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first word(s) Will hears when he wakes up?

2. What dialect of English did the Palanese have?

3. What does Dipa want to do with Pala?

4. Who else of royal descent pays Will Farnaby a visit?

5. Where had Dr. Robert gone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What seems so foreign about the way the people of Pala deal with fear?

2. A tender picture of the doctor's relationship with his wife emerges. What does he feel she brings to the relationship?

3. In what major way do the doctors of Pala and the doctors of the rest of the world differ?

4. How does Will view sex addicts and how is it viewed on Pala?

5. What do you notice about Radha and Ranga?

6. What were three things that were reformed, and why were they so widely accepted?

7. What does Will believe was the result of the Rani's teachings to Murugan?

8. What are practices of James and Janet MacPhail on their children that would be outlawed today?

9. What is the primary difference between the pain of Susila and Will?

10. What does Will say to Mary about his mother and how does she react?

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