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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 is Nitin Bose coming to the guesthouse?

2. What is the benefit of Imrat performing in the park?

3. What does Tariq Mia explain is the Jain monk's only love?

4. Why is there a ceremony for the Jain monk in the stadium?

5. Why do Jain monks cover their mouths?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Nitin an exception to Vano law?

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

3. What is Tariq Mia's advice about "destiny" and how does it contradict to what the narrator has been told through the book?

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

5. Why is Master Mohan not well respected?

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

7. Is the narrator obsessive compulsive?

8. Does Nitin live a charmed life before he moves to the tea estate?

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

10. What is society's relationship with Naga Babas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the story of the Naga Baba offer to the book as a whole?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the errors and successes in the narrator's spiritual journey. Please provide several examples of both errors and successes from the text to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

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

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