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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 does Master Mohan see Imrat as?

2. How does the narrator know it's Nitin who's in trouble?

3. Why do Jain monks cover their mouths?

4. Kama is the god of ______.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What parallels can you draw between the woman in the market and Imrat?

2. To her parents, what are the daughter's shortcomings?

3. Why is Master Mohan's wife so bitter?

4. During the time of the elderly woman's story, was she helpless?

5. Why doesn't the narrator go near the caves again in Chapter 3?

6. Why does the narrator take the job at the guesthouse?

7. What is Shankar's interest in the Narmada?

8. What does the narrator enjoy about Mahadeo?

9. What is the Vano ritual of purging a possession and how does it work?

10. What is the legend of the battle at the Narmada riverbank?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the Narmada river functions as a character in "A River Sutra".

Essay Topic 2

How do the array of religions used in "A River Sutra" add to the narrator's spiritual journey? What statement does it make about spirituality? India?

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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