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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Rita's guests prepare a special dinner?
(a) It's her birthday.
(b) They believe every dinner should be special.
(c) It's New Year's Eve
(d) They are celebrating Christmas.

2. How does Rita feel after her Irian Jaya experience?
(a) She has discovered that she loves group travel.
(b) Energized.
(c) Physically drained, and she discovers that she prefers traveling alone.
(d) She is now physically and mentally in shape.

3. What does Rita want to do when she leaves Bali in 1997?
(a) She wants to be near her children in Seattle.
(b) She wants to be near her children in New York.
(c) She wants to stop traveling and live in the United States.
(d) She wants to go back to Israel.

4. What incredible gift does Rita discover Nyoman has?
(a) He's a terrific chef.
(b) He has a real gift for language.
(c) He is very good with animals.
(d) He's an incredible sculptor.

5. What are Rita's neighbors in Vancouver like?
(a) They are overbearing.
(b) They stay to themselves.
(c) They are very welcoming and generous.
(d) They are cantankerous.

6. What is missing from Rita's life after she returns to Bali?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Good food.

7. Why is Rita concerned about her trek?
(a) She is very out of shape.
(b) Her companions make her nervous.
(c) She doesn't like new experiences.
(d) She isn't comfortable with the guide.

8. What happens to the book Rita writes about her experience?
(a) It becomes a series.
(b) It is broken into a series of articles.
(c) It becomes a best seller.
(d) It is never published.

9. What concerns Rita about the children in the mountain villages?
(a) They run too free.
(b) They are sassy.
(c) They have no business sense.
(d) They are nutritionally deficient.

10. Why is Rita concerned about her mother?
(a) Her mother's Parkinson's is getting worse.
(b) Her mother is depressed after the death of her husband.
(c) Her mother has Alzheimer's.
(d) Her mother has fallen and broken her hip.

11. Why does the family think Tu Nini is dying?
(a) She is old.
(b) She has eaten contaminated food.
(c) She is starving herself.
(d) Black magic.

12. Where does Rita live in Seattle?
(a) With her daughter.
(b) In a house she buys.
(c) With her son.
(d) In an apartment overlooking a lake.

13. What does Rita realize when she goes to pay for her store purchases?
(a) She still has money from Bali.
(b) They should have charged her more.
(c) Prices are extremely high.
(d) She has left her wallet at home.

14. Who flies Rita to the next village visit?
(a) A friend of one of her fellow travelers.
(b) A local with a rudimentary license.
(c) A missionary.
(d) A retired naval officer.

15. To what does Rita attribute her desire to leave Bali?
(a) She wants to get away from all the palace gossip.
(b) Her prince is gone.
(c) The women are mean to her.
(d) The people are beginning to bother her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Jan and Rita think about spirits after their experience?

2. What hobby does Rita pick up while living in Seattle?

3. How does the king treat the woman who gives him the message from the spirits?

4. How long does Rita stay in Bali?

5. Where does Rita go with Dr. Galdikas?

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