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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 Sherlock Holmes story did Theroux allude to in Chapter 19?
(a) "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
(b) "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
(c) "A Study in Scarlet."
(d) "The Red-Headed League."

2. Where did the tattooed American think he needed to go to earn a lot of money?
(a) Singapore.
(b) Hong Kong.
(c) Macau.
(d) Beijing.

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

4. What was the topic of the conference Ghosh and Rahman attended in Singapore?
(a) Religious freedom.
(b) Economic development.
(c) Refugee resettlement.
(d) Family planning.

5. How many Chinese were killed in the Malaysian riots referenced at the beginning of Chapter 22?
(a) 1,600.
(b) 500.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 2,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Bernard tell Theroux he was born?

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

4. What magazine did the CIA official tell Theroux he wrote for?

5. How much did it cost to go to the Japanese bath?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the Kali religious festival from Chapter 16.

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

7. What image was brought to mind by the sight of the Japanese workers doing mass calisthenics?

8. Describe the Japanese obsession with the high cost of living in Japan.

9. How did Colonel Tuan believe Vietnamese viewed Americans as the war wound down?

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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