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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kamakhya want to ask Bobby?
(a) When her poem will be published.
(b) Where Das is.
(c) Where he came from.
(d) If she can have a job.

2. Who teaches Muktananandaji to be fugal?
(a) Amrita.
(b) Bobby.
(c) Krishna.
(d) Sanjay.

3. What is Ashutosh?
(a) A morgue.
(b) A crematorium.
(c) A graveyard.
(d) A hospital.

4. What surprises Muktananandaji about the Kapalikas?
(a) They live up to their reputation.
(b) They are dignified.
(c) They are kind.
(d) They are normal people.

5. Who tells Bobby about Kali?
(a) Vladimir Nabokov.
(b) Amrita.
(c) Vanessa.
(d) Krishna.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bobby describe the Indian accent?

2. Where is the Kapalikas temple?

3. What time does Bobby get to India?

4. Where do Bobby and his wife talk the night before their trip?

5. Why will it be hard for Bobby to find the person he wants to interview in India?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Amrita grow up?

2. What is Muktananandaji told when he is made a Kapalika initiate?

3. Who is Krishna, and what does he do for Bobby?

4. Why does Das say his work has changed since his disappearance?

5. What does Krishna reprimand Bobby for, and why?

6. What does Abe say is different about the recent postings of an Indian poet?

7. Why is Bobby the one being sent to India?

8. How did Calcutta get its name?

9. What makes Bobby feel strange while making love to Amrita the night before the trip?

10. What does Chatterjee read at the meeting with Bobby?

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