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

2. What magazine did the CIA official tell Theroux he wrote for?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) Field and Stream.
(c) Rolling Stone.
(d) Boys' Life.

3. How many hotels did Mandalay have?
(a) None.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

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

5. What book was Mr. Thanoo reading in Chapter 21?
(a) Kim.
(b) A Passage to India.
(c) Colonel Sun.
(d) A Bend in the River.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Buddhist monks doing when Theroux encountered them in Mandalay in Chapter 17?

2. What were workers in Singapore forbidden from doing?

3. Where did Bernard tell Theroux he was born?

4. What country's guidebook did Theroux purchase at the bookstore in Osaka?

5. What was a rotan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the American-looking children Theroux saw throughout Vietnam?

2. Why were the Vietnamese focused on providing foreign visitors with privileges?

3. Why did Theroux leave behind his passport and camera while trying to go to the Goktiek Viaduct?

4. Why were there no skiers on the mountain in Japan, despite the large amount of perfect snow?

5. Why did Theroux describe Bangkok as a city for transients?

6. What were Theroux's main impressions of Singapore?

7. Describe Theroux's visit to the tourism office in Vietnam.

8. How did the family planning experts react to Theroux's questioning about the sizes of their own families?

9. How did Theroux describe the clothes laundering he witnessed from the trains in Asia?

10. What common prostitution story did Theroux hear numerous times during his travels and how did the story told in Laos differ?

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