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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. How do Rita and her companions reach through the cultural barrier?
(a) With music.
(b) Through language lessons.
(c) By helping with the cooking.
(d) By offering expensive gifts.

2. What is Rita's relationship with Tu Aji?
(a) They are lovers.
(b) They are polite but distant to each other.
(c) There is outright animosity between them.
(d) They become very close friends.

3. What bothers Rita when she thinks of dying in Bali?
(a) She doesn't want to die so far from her home.
(b) She doesn't want the villagers peering at her naked corpse.
(c) She doesn't want to be buried without a tombstone.
(d) She doesn't want to be cremated.

4. What do Jan and Rita think about spirits after their experience?
(a) They think spirits are bogus.
(b) They scoff at the idea of spirits.
(c) They are fearful of spirits.
(d) They believe in spirits.

5. With whom does Rita stay when she arrives in Bali?
(a) A friend she had met in previous travels.
(b) The owner of a bed and breakfast.
(c) A friend of her son.
(d) A prince.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rita leave Bali to go the United States?

2. To what does Rita attribute her desire to leave Bali?

3. Who flies Rita to the next village visit?

4. How does Rita furnish her home in Seattle?

5. What new item does Rita discover when she gets back to Kerambitan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the women go into a trance?

2. What news does Rita get when she is living in Seattle that makes her decide to go back to Bali?

3. What is Tu Man's relationship with Jan?

4. How does Rita feel about spirituality?

5. How does Rita contribute to the household when she lives at Dayu Raka's place?

6. How does Rita prepare for her time in Irian Jaya?

7. What is life like in Bali without Tu Aji?

8. Rita visits her mom and is alarmed by her weakness. How does she react to her mother's health situation?

9. How is Rita's mother's experience after the death of Rita's father similar to Rita's experiences?

10. Why does the group travel so far to visit the villagers who live in the trees?

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