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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. In "The Mouse," where did Gamini ask a driver to wake him after he had to take a leave from the hospital because of exhaustion?

2. In 1989, how many students attending school in Ratnapura district disappeared?

3. In "Between Heartbeats," what was Leaf dying from?

4. In "The Mouse," where did Sarath's wife work?

5. In "The Mouse," when bodies came inland, how many rivers did they come down?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In "The Mouse," how long had Gamini and the other doctors he worked with in the northeast worked there and how long had they planned to work there?

5. What did Sareth work on in China?

6. In "Ananda," how do Anil and Ananda interact when Sareth is gone?

7. In "The Mouse," how did Gamini work, and how did he feel about his work?

8. In "Between Heartbeats," what did Anil say about movies in Sri Lankan movie theaters?

9. In "Ananda," what does Anil discover about Sailor?

10. In "Between Heartbeats," how poor were people in the village where there was a massacre?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

The novel takes place during Sri Lanka’s civil war. What is revealed about the uselessness of war? What is the role of war in the novel? What does war symbolize?

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