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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 is Richard's favorite thing?
(a) Exploring.
(b) Making friends.
(c) The split second before the game announces "game over".
(d) The beach.

2. What had been left on the main character's door?
(a) Directions.
(b) A note.
(c) A map.
(d) A letter.

3. How far would the main character have traveled if it was only him?
(a) The malls in Ginwon.
(b) The strip joints in Patpong.
(c) The strip joints in Panpong.
(d) The strip joints in Pinpong.

4. How big was the lizard?
(a) About two inches long.
(b) Three and a half inches long.
(c) Four inches long.
(d) About three inches long.

5. What did Richard just accept about the Beach?
(a) Both of these things.
(b) Rice.
(c) Neither of these things.
(d) Assimilation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old did the main character judge the French couple to be, at first?

2. Approximately how high were the cliffs?

3. What did the lights of Koh Samui glow like?

4. Not being able to finish the swim would mean what?

5. What nationality did the main character guess the man was that spoke of the beach?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Richard realize that he would have to do when he came to the cliffs and the waterfall? What did he imagine when he had looked at the waterfall and the pool beneath?

2. Why did Richard feel as though he was governed by someone else in retrospect?

3. Why did Richard keep an open mind when it came to Jed?

4. Why couldn't tourists visit the national parks?

5. What did all the people that were taken to the beach have in common? Who was the odd person out?

6. What was the problem with the rucksacks and how was it solved?

7. What conveyed a sense or normalcy to Richard when he had woken up?

8. Why did Richard consider himself pretty lucky?

9. Why did it surprise Richard that he had volunteered to go for the Rice Run?

10. What did Francoise and Etienne fear when they had seen Richard chatting with the Americans? Why was this?

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