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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must Nitin make a clay figure of the goddess and submerge it?

2. As the narrator looks at the river one morning, who does the narrator imagine he may see floating in it one day?

3. What causes possession, in the doctor's opinion?

4. Where has Nitin run off to?

5. Why is Imrat killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Great Sahib kill Imrat?

2. Is the narrator obsessive compulsive?

3. What is India's perception of the West? The West of India?

4. Why is Master Mohan not well respected?

5. Why is the narrator hesitant to allow the elderly woman to stay at the guesthouse? What does her situation resemble?

6. In the doctor's opinion, is Nitin possessed and can he be cured?

7. In Chapter 11, who is the narrator primarily concerned for?

8. What are the father's philosophies on music?

9. How does the archaeology crew affect the narrator's view of his escape?

10. Are any of the daughter's shortcomings correctable?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Based on the various and vastly different accounts and interpretations of "enlightenment" in "A River Sutra", discuss what it means as a whole to the book.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the course of change our narrator experiences: stretch from before the beginning of "A River Sutra" to the end, reasons for change, and where we leave him at the end.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the use of music around the Narmada in "A River Sutra".

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