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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. When Gamini first met Sarath's wife, how many times did he propose marriage to her?

2. After Sarath takes Ananda for medical treatment in Ratnapura in Ananda, what time does Anil hear the sounds of the foreman coming on the property?

3. In "Between Heartbeats," what was the only silent place in the base hospital that Gamini worked in during his last year in the northeast?

4. How old was Lakdasa in "Between Heartbeats"?

5. In "Ananda," what does Ananda try to use to kill himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Ananda's wife, Sirissa?

2. In "The Mouse," what happened when Gamini fell asleep on the beach?

3. How did Sareth's wife die?

4. What reasons did Leaf give for moving to New Mexico, and what was the real reason for the move?

5. In "Ananda," how does Anil remember that some of her teachers were able to discover in a skeleton what the person's profession was?

6. What did Sareth work on in China?

7. What type of cases did Gamini see when he worked at the base hospital at Polonnaruwa during his last year in the northeast?

8. In "Ananda," why does Ananda spend the first morning in the village?

9. When Gamini was a boy, what did he think about a career?

10. How did Gamini and his wife view his childhood?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Ananda reconstructs a statue at the end of the novel. What does the broken statue represent? What is symbolized when Ananda reconstructs the statue?

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