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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Shakespeare play did Anne teach while living in Queenstown?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Richard III.

2. How much time did Theroux have to board the train to Sapporo in Aomori?
(a) Fifteen minutes.
(b) Five minutes.
(c) Thirty minutes.
(d) One hour.

3. Which religion's festival was banned in India?
(a) Christian.
(b) Sikh.
(c) Tamil.
(d) Muslim.

4. What interrupted Theroux's conversation at the Japanese National Railways office?
(a) An emergency warning.
(b) Music over the loudspeakers.
(c) An argument among passengers.
(d) Announcements over the loudspeakers.

5. How long did the professor's course of Henry James' The Golden Bowl last?
(a) Two semesters.
(b) Two years.
(c) One year.
(d) Three semesters.

6. What was the Vietnamese woman doing with the half-American baby on the train through Vietnam?
(a) She was a prostitute looking for work.
(b) She was trying to get passage out of Vietnam.
(c) She was trying to give the baby to Theroux.
(d) She was trying to get money.

7. What time did Theroux wake up at the station at the end of Chapter 21?
(a) Two a.m.
(b) One a.m.
(c) Four a.m.
(d) Midnight.

8. What local delicacy did Theroux find for sale to passengers at the stations in Burma?
(a) Fried locusts.
(b) Fried mealworms.
(c) Fried ants.
(d) Fried grasshoppers.

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

10. In what year was the Goktiek Viaduct built?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1905.

11. What term described the total work stoppage organized by the Socialist Unity Centre in Chapter 16?
(a) Puja.
(b) Bundh.
(c) Satyagraha.
(d) Maidan.

12. What did the security officer note Theroux did not have when he claimed to be a tourist?
(a) Luggage.
(b) A passport.
(c) A tourguide book.
(d) A camera.

13. How did celebrants mark the banned festival?
(a) By dancing all night.
(b) By piercing their tongues.
(c) By piercing their bodies with skewers.
(d) By parading all night.

14. Why was the official going through the train checking the IDs of civilian males?
(a) He was looking for American citizens.
(b) He was looking for South Vietnamese Army members.
(c) He was looking for Viet Cong members.
(d) He was looking for draft evaders.

15. What area was Theroux told serves as an off-limits security area in Chapter 17?
(a) Lashio.
(b) Pagan.
(c) Inle Lake.
(d) Rangoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did Mr. Pensacola say had boring nightclubs?

2. What animals scavenged food at the rail station in Toungoo in Chapter 17?

3. Why were there so few skiers on the train to Sapporo?

4. Why did the train stop outside Nagoya?

5. How far apart are Tokyo and Kyoto?

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