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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 many deserters did Dial estimate remained in Vietnam?
(a) About 50.
(b) About 500.
(c) About 200.
(d) About 300.

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

3. What was the American woman shown at the tea house ceremony?
(a) Japanese cinema.
(b) Pornographic films.
(c) Japanese television.
(d) Pornographic paintings.

4. What Russian novel was Theroux reading in Chapter 21?
(a) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
(b) The Brothers Doestoevsky.
(c) Crime and Punishment.
(d) Dead Souls.

5. What did Theroux write the Japanese took perverse pride in?
(a) How small their families were.
(b) How hard they worked.
(c) How smoothly the trains ran.
(d) How expensive their country was.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did every train include in the Goktiek area?

3. How many people had been killed since the cease-fire (as of December 1973)?

4. In what town did Theroux find cheap brothels and plentiful opium in Chapter 20?

5. What did Theroux write was a common form of Japanese courtesy among parents?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How was the American woman living in Sapporo welcomed into the Japanese fold in the story retold in Chapter 27?

5. How did Theroux feel about the fast trains between cities in Japan?

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

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

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

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

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

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