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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 many key figures in the administration are people working on?
(a) Six
(b) Four
(c) Five
(d) Four or five

2. Who does Will ask about when he sees Dr. Robert in the morning?
(a) Molly
(b) Lakshmi
(c) Susila
(d) Nurse Radha

3. How many years before the rest of the world did Palanese figure out AI?
(a) Ten
(b) Twenty
(c) Fourty
(d) Thirty

4. What musician does Susila put on?
(a) Gabrieli
(b) Beethoven
(c) Nickleback
(d) Bach

5. What lands on the altar in the service?
(a) A grey bird with a crimson head
(b) A feather
(c) A brightly colored beetle
(d) A Mynah bird

Short Answer Questions

1. What should Murugan have been studying?

2. How does the Rani address Will?

3. What things are responsible for the mirage of happiness?

4. Vijaya compares himself to what animal?

5. What makes Leela happy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What horrible things befell Aunt Mary?

3. What does the mountain climb ordeal teach the youth of Pala and what happens afterwards?

4. What does Will notice about the women on the island?

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

6. What does Moksha-medicine do for the Palanese?

7. What is the advice to every pair of lovers?

8. What does Will notice about the differences between Lakshmi and Aunt Mary?

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

10. What is Leela Rao's position on the island? What makes her important?

(see the answer keys)

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