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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. According to Mr. Thanoo, what metal was mined in Thailand and Malaysia?
(a) Tin.
(b) Copper.
(c) Iron ore.
(d) Platinum.

2. How many passengers transferred from the train to the Aomori ferry?
(a) 1,000
(b) 1,200.
(c) 1,700.
(d) 1,500.

3. What drug was the Burmese man using on the way to the viaduct?
(a) Marajuana.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Opium.
(d) Hashish.

4. What American play was banned under Thieu's regime?
(a) Death of a Salesman.
(b) The Glass Menagerie.
(c) A Streetcar Named Desire.
(d) Our Town.

5. To what American author did Theroux compare the Japanese writer, Hirai Taro?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Samuel Clemens.
(d) Jack London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the French-built Trans-Vietnam Railway six years after it was completed in the 1930s?

2. How far apart are Tokyo and Kyoto?

3. What was the topic of the conference Ghosh and Rahman attended in Singapore?

4. What interrupted Theroux's conversation at the Japanese National Railways office?

5. How long did the professor's course of Henry James' The Golden Bowl last?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Theroux treated at the hotel in Mandalay?

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

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

4. How did Westerners and Japanese react to the suicide of the Japanese writer, Yukio Mishima?

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

6. Why did Theroux describe the Burmese government as a Buddhist bureaucracy?

7. How did Mr. Bernard treat Theroux at his mansion in maymyo?

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

9. Why did Theroux find the Singapore government's prediction of electronic connectedness so disturbing?

10. Why did Theroux refer to Laos as "America's expensive practical joke"?

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