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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. Who shares half of a boiled egg with Tiny in Section 3, Chapter 2?
(a) Rabbit Hendricks.
(b) Darky Gardiner.
(c) Jack Rainbow.
(d) Jimmy Bigelow.

2. What is the name of the island state where Dorrigo grows up?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) Saint Lucia.
(c) Tasmania.
(d) Tuvalu.

3. Where does the Death Railroad begin when Dorrigo arrives with other POWs to work on it in Section 1, Chapter 7?
(a) Near Bangkok.
(b) Near Kuala Lumpur.
(c) Near Hiroshima.
(d) Near Seoul.

4. What does Rabbit Hendricks do for the Japanese in order to earn small payments?
(a) He writes poems.
(b) He sketches postcards.
(c) He performs songs.
(d) He composes songs.

5. Who takes the sketchbook that falls out of the fire in Section 3, Chapter 13?
(a) Dorrigo Evans.
(b) Colonel Kota.
(c) Rooster MacNeice.
(d) Jack Rainbow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Tasmanian machine gunners are in Sergeant Darky Gardiner's group when Dorrigo encounters them in Section 1, Chapter 12?

2. What are the prisoners ordered to retrieve from the mud in Section 3, Chapter 1?

3. By whom have Dorrigo and the others been taken prisoner in Section 1, Chapter 11?

4. Who is the woman that Dorrigo is in bed with when Section 1, Chapter 4 begins?

5. What is the name of Lizard Brancussi's wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Colonel Kota remark about the act of beheading in Section 2, Chapter 16?

2. Whose 18th century death poem does Dorrigo contemplate in Section 1, Chapter 10? What is remarked about the poem?

3. What does the reader learn about Dorrigo's later life in Section 2, Chapter 5?

4. How has Darky Gardiner come into possession of a duck egg in Section 3, Chapter 1?

5. What are your impressions of Amy's character when she is introduced in Section 2?

6. How would you describe the language style of The Narrow Road to the Deep North?

7. Who gives Nakamura new orders in Section 2, Chapter 14? What are the orders?

8. What internal conflicts does Dorrigo face in Section 2, Chapter 5?

9. What is the significance of Rabbit's sketchbook in the novel? What happens to the sketchbook when Rabbit dies in Section 3?

10. What is the "Book of Souls" that is mentioned in The Narrow Road to the Deep North?

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