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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. How did Will's Aunt Mary change?
(a) She went from being an escape from his parents to being a regretted trip
(b) She went from being loving, giving and charitable to hating everyone who wasn't sick
(c) She went from being totally beautiful and appealing to being haggard and ugly
(d) She went from being someone he loved to someone he hated

2. What does Will say about the light?
(a) It surrounds him
(b) He is being it
(c) He is approaching it
(d) It is far off in the distance

3. How is Artificial Insemination justified religiously?
(a) Karma and reincarnation
(b) God wanted those sperm to be there
(c) Reincarnation and Piety
(d) Karma and Restitution

4. How does Will attempt to describe his experience with the Moksha-medicine?
(a) Radiating comfort
(b) Luminous bliss
(c) Enveloping love
(d) Terrifying darkness

5. How does the Rani address Will?
(a) Dearest Will
(b) Darling Will
(c) Mon cher Farnaby
(d) My dear Farnaby

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the scarecrows?

2. What color was the dog that greeted Will at Vijaya's bungalow?

3. How do the Palanese teach in comparison to us?

4. What does Will want to call out to the Rani?

5. What was the name of the painter Will took an interest in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Murugan's interest in consumer goods benefit Colonel Dipa?

2. How are animals treated on Pala versus the rest of the world?

3. What is Shanta's opinion in regards to snakes and snakebites?

4. Describe how Dr. Robert deals with Lakshmi's death.

5. What horrible things befell Aunt Mary?

6. Why do the Palanese accept the use of symbolism in religion, though don't encourage it?

7. In Pala, what is "grace" and how does this version of "grace" differ from ours?

8. Explain why Mrs. Narayan is a justified optimist.

9. What is the idea behind repetition in a religious nature?

10. What, in Shanta's words, makes Pala a nice place? Repeat in your own words.

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