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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kiguchi expect to be left in the jungle?
(a) He is too ill to continue walking.
(b) He is supposed to set mines for the pursuing enemy.
(c) He has angered their captors.
(d) He is supposed to be a rear guard.

2. What ailment does Isobe's wife have?
(a) Broken pelvis.
(b) Bad heart.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Bad arthritis.

3. How long after death do Buddhists believe a soul is reborn?
(a) It depends on what the soul chooses.
(b) The soul must wait at least until all those in the immediate family are dead.
(c) Within one year after death.
(d) By the 49th day.

4. What does Mrs. Sanja think of the bus that is transporting the tourists?
(a) It is decrepit.
(b) It is very clean.
(c) The does not express an opinion about the bus.
(d) It is very comfortable.

5. What does Enami wonder about concerning Mitsuko in Chapter 7?
(a) What it would be like to sleep with her.
(b) If she is happy with the man she is writing all the time.
(c) If she is a little insane.
(d) Why she avoids Isobe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Sanja see this trip as part of his work?

2. What is the nationality of the tourists on the bus in Chapter 6?

3. What does Miss Naruse think Keiko already knows?

4. What does Tsukada confess to Kiguchi about the meat Tsukada brought him?

5. Where do Mitsuko and her new husband go for their honeymoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the snake charmer in the garden do?

2. What story does Gaston tell Tsukada when he confesses about the meat in Burma?

3. What does Keiko ask Isobe to do as she wakes briefly from a coma before she dies?

4. What thoughts go through Isobe's mind about his wife as he sits in his hotel room in Chapter 7?

5. Who is Enami's favorite Hindu goddess?

6. For what does Isobe tell Mitsuko he is searching?

7. Why do pilgrims go to the Ganges River?

8. What does Numada say to Enami about the trees in India?

9. How is Tsu thought of by the French priests?

10. About what does Mrs. Sanja complain while riding on the bus?

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