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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. What is Master Mohan's profession?

2. After the narrator's meeting with the monk, why does he avoid the caves?

3. The Jain monk observes that although his father gives to charity, he doesn't ______ poverty.

4. Why is Imrat killed?

5. What is the narrator's primary anxiety about Nitin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the ceremonies of becoming a monk?

2. What is Ashok's desire in becoming a monk?

3. Why does Master Mohan kill himself?

4. Why is the Jain monk's only love the human heart?

5. What is the cause of Nitin's insanity?

6. Why is "endurance" a necessary part of a pilgrimage to the Narmada?

7. How does the narrator feel about Tariq Mia's village?

8. Is the daughter trusting of Rahul Singh?

9. How does the woman in the market set up what is to come in Chapter 13?

10. What is the role of the Narmada river in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss interconnectedness in "A River Sutra":

Part 1) Between characters in the tales.

Part 2) Between characters within the tales and our narrator himself.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the narrator's mental limits: what he understands and what disturbs him. Discuss what we are able to learn about the world in "A River Sutra" through his successes and shortcomings.

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