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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26 and 27, pp. 268-288.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animals did Theroux encounter near the Galta gorge temple?
(a) Vultures.
(b) Monkeys.
(c) Baboons.
(d) Elephants.

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

3. Why did the Ceylonese dynamite the coral reefs.
(a) To make tourist knick-knacks.
(b) To make artificial coral.
(c) To make lime.
(d) To decorate aquariums with coral.

4. What does the surname Singh mean?
(a) Lion.
(b) Tiger.
(c) Cow.
(d) Cheetah.

5. How did Theroux know he had touched bottom while traveling by train?
(a) He was surrounded by Americans.
(b) He was surrounded by locals.
(c) He was surrounded by Australians.
(d) He was surrounded by hippies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sites did the tourism director, Mr. Ngoc, try to advertise to draw visitors?

2. Who built the jail in Kabul in 1626?

3. In Chapter 8, Theroux was told there was no train to which country?

4. What was the approximate population of Bangladesh?

5. How did the Tamils clean their teeth on the train in Chapter 12?

(see the answer key)

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