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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does Will ask about when he sees Dr. Robert in the morning?
(a) Nurse Radha
(b) Molly
(c) Susila
(d) Lakshmi
2. What is a Palanese criterion of a good school?
(a) Creating puppets out of children
(b) Success
(c) Creating strength for the state
(d) Winning scholarships
3. How many years before the rest of the world did Palanese figure out AI?
(a) Thirty
(b) Ten
(c) Fourty
(d) Twenty
4. What lands on the altar in the service?
(a) A feather
(b) A Mynah bird
(c) A grey bird with a crimson head
(d) A brightly colored beetle
5. What color was the dog that greeted Will at Vijaya's bungalow?
(a) Orange
(b) Tan
(c) Yellow
(d) Beige
6. What is the title of the book Murugan is reading in Chapter 10?
(a) Science Fiction
(b) Winning People's Hearts and Minds: One at a Time
(c) Geology Now
(d) Home and Garden
7. What do the two people request of Shanta?
(a) To go immediately to see Dr. Robert
(b) To come and have dinner with them
(c) To talk to their mother
(d) To walk with them to Susila's
8. How did Will view Aunt Mary's love?
(a) As a kind of physical radiation
(b) It was chokingly powerful
(c) Quiet and serene, like a slow moving river
(d) Like a perpetually blooming flower
9. What did Will's teachers try to do about people's differences?
(a) Blow them out of proportion
(b) Iron them out
(c) Exploit them for their own gain
(d) Make them more than they were
10. Who comes to alert Susila about Lakshmi?
(a) Mary
(b) Dr. Robert
(c) Tom
(d) Murugan
11. What does Dr. Robert say about western intellectuals?
(a) They are too self absorbed to make any real progress
(b) They are all blind to true beauty
(c) They are all sitting addicts
(d) They are all jaded to their own upbringings
12. What color is Leela Rao wearing?
(a) Green
(b) Yellow
(c) Pink
(d) Blue
13. How did Will feel before he had met Molly?
(a) Free and at peace
(b) Indifferent
(c) Happily oblivious
(d) Stifled by loneliness
14. Why did Shanta send Tom to talk to Vijaya?
(a) To speak with him about his mother
(b) To lend Vijaya a hand
(c) Vijaya is everything Tom likes to imagine he is
(d) To take consolation from the big man
15. What is the last word the Mynahs spoke?
(a) Karuna
(b) Attention
(c) Now
(d) Boys
Short Answer Questions
1. What is capable in a very deep trance?
2. What fruit does Susila compare Nirvana to?
3. What is the name of the parrot at Vijaya's?
4. What is Leela's vocation?
5. What are the scarecrows?
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