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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 two physical traits does Shanta say her baby will possess?
(a) He will be athletic and toned
(b) He will be endomorphic and viscerotonic
(c) He will be intelligent and chubby
(d) He will be tall and lean

2. How does WIll react to the Rani's letter?
(a) With indifference
(b) With inner violent anger
(c) With joy
(d) With the calm air of servitude

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

4. How do the Palanese teach in comparison to us?
(a) They don't teach propaganda, whereas we do
(b) They teach as we would teach in fifteen years
(c) They teach physics and math as opposed to us teaching humanities and art
(d) They focus on the here and now versus the then and later

5. What is the crime of the Palanese?
(a) They are too full of themselves
(b) They are too good
(c) They are too self involved
(d) They are too educated

Short Answer Questions

1. What was significant about Gobind's grandmother?

2. What kind of marmalade does Will use?

3. What is the name of the play that Mary likes?

4. Who comes to alert Susila about Lakshmi?

5. What scientist does Will make an allusion to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a Rakshasi, and what is the Rakshasi Hornpipe?

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

4. What is the most dangerous element to recognize in children and why is it the most dangerous?

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

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

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

8. How does AI contribute to a better destiny for the people of Pala?

9. What is Will's incarnation of evil?

10. What are the differences between what Will remembers about the Oedipus play and what Mary recounts?

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