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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 does Mrs. Sanja do constantly on the bus?
2. What does Keiko dream that Isobe does?
3. Who is the only person in the restaurant where Numada goes after a shower in Chapter 6?
4. What does Ch'mund' do despite being sick and emaciated?
5. How many affairs did Isobe have during his marriage?
Short Essay Questions
1. What information does Enami give the Japanese who are about to go to India on a tour?
2. For what does Isobe tell Mitsuko he is searching?
3. What does Numada say to Enami about the trees in India?
4. How does Numada cope with his parents' divorce proceedings?
5. About what does Mrs. Sanja complain while riding on the bus?
6. Who does Mitsuko eventually marry?
7. Why do pilgrims go to the Ganges River?
8. What does Tsukada ask of Kiguchi ten years after the two encounter each other in Tokyo?
9. What does the snake charmer in the garden do?
10. What happens when Mitsuko tires of sleeping with Tsu?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mitsuko looks for Tsu several times in the book both in France and in India.
Discuss the reasons you think Mitsuko keeps looking for Tsu and if you think she has found what she is looking for. Use examples from Deep River to support your discussion.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the following:
Do you think most people want a happy ending in a novel? Do you think Deep River would qualify as a novel with a happy ending? Why or why not? What do you think are three reasons to read fiction and do you think Deep River fulfills these three reasons? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss one of the following:
Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Deep River. Trace and analyze one major theme of Deep River. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
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