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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Naruse Mitsuko think about after Isobe leaves the informational meeting?
(a) Where Keiko is now.
(b) A boy she tormented.
(c) Her lack of beliefs in a god.
(d) Whether she would reincarnate or not.
2. What does Enami say about the fighting where Kiguchi was in the war?
(a) It was fierce.
(b) There was not much fighting there.
(c) It was mild.
(d) It was sporadic.
3. What do some students try to get Mitsuko to do concerning Tsu in Chapter 3?
(a) Convert him back to Buddhism.
(b) Seduce him.
(c) Trick him.
(d) Convert him to Catholicism.
4. What does Enami wonder about concerning Mitsuko in Chapter 7?
(a) Why she avoids Isobe.
(b) If she is happy with the man she is writing all the time.
(c) What it would be like to sleep with her.
(d) If she is a little insane.
5. What pet does Numada get as an adult that his wife does not like?
(a) A cat.
(b) A hornbill.
(c) A ferret.
(d) A pot-bellied pig.
6. What does the puppy do that Numada brings home as a boy?
(a) Avoids Numada's father.
(b) Whines at night.
(c) Pees on all the rugs.
(d) Chews up the family's stash of money.
7. What does Tsu write in his letters to Mitsuko that she reads when awakened in the middle of the night?
(a) His loss of faith.
(b) His belief in God.
(c) His desire for her to come to him.
(d) His hope that he will someday know who he is.
8. What is Mrs. Sanja's attitude towards the native children?
(a) They steal.
(b) They are in need of some parental discipline.
(c) They are ill and beggars.
(d) They are sweet.
9. Who/what does Isobe's wife saying she has been talking to?
(a) A hummingbird.
(b) A ginko tree.
(c) A lizard.
(d) Her deceased mother.
10. What does Keiko urge Isobe to do as she comes out of a coma for a minute?
(a) Take care of her mother.
(b) Be happy.
(c) Make peace with his daughter.
(d) Find her when she is reborn.
11. What do ill pilgrims have done to their bodies when they die?
(a) Cremation and scattering ashes on the mountaintop.
(b) Buried in the forest above the waterfall.
(c) Cremation and their ashes are scattered on the Ganges.
(d) Their ashes sent back to their families.
12. How did Isobe view his wife when she was alive?
(a) As an intellectual.
(b) As a sensual woman.
(c) As an object.
(d) As a helpmate and supporter.
13. About what does Kiguchi think about when the tourists are driven through the jungle in Chapter 6?
(a) An Indian girl he once fell in love with.
(b) His war experience in Burma.
(c) His last trip to Vietnam.
(d) The jungles near his home.
14. What does Joseph do to Moïra?
(a) Leaves her and breaks her heart.
(b) Marries her.
(c) Murders her.
(d) Sets her up with his best friend.
15. Who does Moïra seduce?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Joseph.
(c) No one.
(d) Isobe.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Kiguchi remember concerning his time as a soldier?
2. Where are Kiguchi and Enami when Chapter 5 opens?
3. What nickname do Tsu and Mitsuko give God when Mitsuko sees Tsu on her honeymoon?
4. Where are Kiguchi and Tsukada walking together during Kiguchi's flashback?
5. What does Enami become irritated about concerning the Sanja's in Chapter 6?
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