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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 the current name of Ceylon?
(a) Myanmar.
(b) Burma.
(c) Siam.
(d) Sri Lanka.

2. What was interesting about the blond Sadiq picked up at the bar in Istanbul?
(a) She was underage.
(b) She was an undercover police officer.
(c) She was actually a man.
(d) She was married.

3. What book was Theroux reading at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) The Autobiography of a Yogi.
(b) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
(c) Steppenwolf.
(d) Siddhartha.

4. What was the topic of the three-day seminar attended by Theroux in Ceylon in Chapter 15?
(a) American literature.
(b) American history.
(c) British Literature.
(d) African literature.

5. What does the frieze in the Peshawar Museum depict?
(a) The birth of Adam.
(b) The birth of Jesus.
(c) The birth of Muhammad.
(d) The birth of Buddha.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the trip to Lahore?

2. What Joyce book did Theroux take on the train in Chapter 12?

3. Which Kipling book did Theroux refer to when describing Lahore?

4. What university did the professor teach at in Chapter 11?

5. What animals did Theroux encounter near the Galta gorge temple?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Theroux describe the Australians he encountered on the trains?

2. What was Theroux's reaction to the German drug addict he met in India in Chapter 8?

3. What were Theroux's impressions of the alleged tombs of Cain and Abel?

4. Why had Sadik still not taken a pilgrimage to Mecca when he met Theroux in Chapter 4?

5. Why were the Ceylonese showing so much devotion to St. Jude?

6. What is ironic about the treatment of the young Indian man fleeing London's racism in Chapter 7?

7. What were Theroux's impressions of the Pakistani city of Peshawar?

8. Why was Mr. Radia, with whom Theroux spoke in Chapter 10, so cynical about the English?

9. Why did Paramahansa Yogananda, the guru followed by Mr. Gupta in Chapter 9, go to America?

10. In Theroux's view, how did the strictures of Islam affect Pakistani men?

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