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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24 and 25, pp. 241-267.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Kipling book did Theroux refer to when describing Lahore?
(a) Just-so Stories.
(b) Gunga Din.
(c) The Jungle Book.
(d) Kim.

2. What were the American travelers discussing on the train in Chapter 8?
(a) Their digestive problems.
(b) Hindu festivals.
(c) Religious disputes.
(d) The poverty in India.

3. What Russian writer did Theroux read on the trip in Chapter 7?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Gogol.
(c) Doestoevsky.
(d) Chekhov.

4. How many people had been killed since the cease-fire (as of December 1973)?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 70,000.

5. What happened to the French-built Trans-Vietnam Railway six years after it was completed in the 1930s?
(a) It was seized by the government.
(b) It blew up.
(c) It was damaged in an earthquake.
(d) It burned down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Theroux write was the greatest tragedy of American involvement in Vietnam?

2. Why did the young man leaving Bangalore to go to Bangkok in Chapter 16?

3. What was the surname of the local USIS official in Hue?

4. What profession did Theroux claim to ward off questions in Chapter 7?

5. Where had the young man traveling to Bangkok sought romantic advice?

(see the answer key)

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