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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of anthropologist is Anil?

2. During Anil's second morning in Sri Lanka, where does is she asked to meet forensic students?

3. How did Anil's parents die?

4. In "The Grove of Ascetics," how old is Palipana?

5. In "A Brother," where did women sleep when their children were in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Chitra, and why does Anil contact her in Sarath?

2. In "A Brother," what was the man like that Anil married briefly?

3. In the Introduction, why is a woman sitting in a grave in Guatemala?

4. When Anil examines a body with forensic students at the Kynsey Road Hospital, what does she discover?

5. What happened to the monks who used to live in the Grove of Ascetics, and what reaction was there to what happened to them?

6. What is Lakma's story?

7. In "A Brother," what did Anil find different about English classrooms?

8. When Anil arrives in Sri Lanka, how does the dawn arrive like thunder?

9. What does Sarath tell Anil he would like to write a book about someday?

10. At the end of "A Brother," what images did Sarath and Palipana once see in a cave?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anil was very lonely when she first went to England. Why was Anil lonely? How did she try to assuage her loneliness? How did her loneliness lead to a bad decision?

Essay Topic 2

For Gamini, Emergency Services becomes a cocoon for him after his wife leaves him. How does Emergency Services become Gamini’s cocoon? Why does he need a cocoon as a refuge?

Essay Topic 3

Palipana settles in the Grove of Ascetics, a place that was once home to ascetics. What type of lifestyle is lived by ascetics? What type of lifestyle is Palipana living when Anil meets him? Why does Palipana chose that place and that lifestyle at the end of his life?

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