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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the narrator reluctant to let the elderly woman stay?

2. What happens to the forest in the elderly woman's hometown?

3. The father says he will die happy if he could sing like _______.

4. After hearing Rahul Singh's story, the daughter thinks he's ______.

5. What season is it in Chapter 9?

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 "healing" in "A River Sutra": how are medicine, science, and fact placed side by side with faith and belief?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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