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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the dance academy, what are the girls' dances supposed to convey?

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

3. What people does Rahul Singh kill?

4. The woman claims her teacher is a ______.

5. When the ugly daughter was a child, she was ______ of her father.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the necessity of "understanding" and "renouncing" the world in "A River Sutra".

Part 1) How must one do this? What is to be gained?

Part 2) How does the narrator attempt this? What are his flaws?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss paternity and childhood in "A River Sutra". Where can this type of relationship be seen in the text? Who is involved, and how does it drive the plot?

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