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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 sport did Anil and other forensic anthropologists like to play when she worked in the United States?
2. In "A Brother," during the first two years of the war, how many casualties were brought in as a result of explosions?
3. In "Sarath," when was a mass grave found in Naipattimunai?
4. Where did Palipana find the remaining structures of a monastery?
5. How did Anil's parents die?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Chitra, and why does Anil contact her in Sarath?
2. What happened to the monks who used to live in the Grove of Ascetics, and what reaction was there to what happened to them?
3. In The Grove of the Ascetics, what is Ananda's job and what are the working conditions like?
4. What is the place like where Sarath and Anil find Palipana in the Grove of Ascetics?
5. What does Sarath tell Anil he would like to write a book about someday?
6. At the end of "A Brother," what images did Sarath and Palipana once see in a cave?
7. What does Sarath tell Anil about the situation in Sri Lanka when they first meet?
8. In "A Brother," what happened at Ward Place Hospital when insurgents came to the hospital?
9. In the Introduction, why is a woman sitting in a grave in Guatemala?
10. In "A Brother," when and how did Gamini handle triage?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The next to the last chapter in the novel is called "The Life Wheel." What is a life wheel? In what way are the lives of characters connected through a life wheel? What does the life wheel represent?
Essay Topic 2
Anil had an affair with a married man. How does the author describe the relationship between the two? Why was the relationship doomed from the beginning?
Essay Topic 3
There were specialists who worked in the hospitals in the north, but they had to adapt and work in many areas outside their specialties. Why did specialists have to work in areas outside their specialities? What were scarce in the base hospitals? How did the doctors have to learn to adapt to the conditions and supplies at hand? Why was it important to be adaptable when working in base hospitals?
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