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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, 14 and 15, pp. 146- 164.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What American author did Theroux mention in describing Indians in Chapter 9?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Bret Harte.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Mark Twain.

2. How high did the railway climb through the pass?
(a) 4,000 feet.
(b) 3,600 feet.
(c) 3,200 feet.
(d) 3,000 feet.

3. What profession did Theroux claim to ward off questions in Chapter 7?
(a) Trade.
(b) Academia.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Dentistry.

4. Who built the jail in Kabul in 1626?
(a) King Babar.
(b) Ahmad Khan.
(c) Tamerlane.
(d) Genghis Khan.

5. What author was Theroux reading at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) Dinesen.
(b) Kipling.
(c) Forster.
(d) Dickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the English missionary in Madras claim other missionaries were doing?

2. What was on the marble slabs at the Galta temple entrance?

3. How far does the train from Delhi to Madras travel?

4. What new food had the Ceylonese begun planting because of their starvation?

5. Why did the Ceylonese dynamite the coral reefs.

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