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

2. What was Theroux staring at for 15 minutes while at The Mess?
(a) A cat in the hallway.
(b) A mouse on the floor.
(c) A gecko on the wall.
(d) A bird outside the window.

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

4. How much did it cost to go to the Japanese bath?
(a) Twenty dollars.
(b) Thirty dollars.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) Fifteen dollars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What American song was playing in a Burmese style aboard the train in Burma in Chapter 17?

2. What kind of stories did Hirai Taro specialize in?

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

4. What did the security officer note Theroux did not have when he claimed to be a tourist?

5. Why did the young man leaving Bangalore to go to Bangkok in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Kali religious festival from Chapter 16.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Mr. Lau dislike Kuala Lumpur?

8. What did Theroux find disturbing about Osaka?

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

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

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