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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26 and 27, pp. 268-288.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new food had the Ceylonese begun planting because of their starvation?
(a) Okra.
(b) Rice.
(c) Cassava.
(d) Potatoes.

2. What kind of stories did Hirai Taro specialize in?
(a) Detective stories.
(b) Mysteries.
(c) Science fiction.
(d) Tales of terror.

3. What baseball player was the focus of articles in the English-language paper in Teheran?
(a) Babe Ruth.
(b) Jackie Robinson.
(c) Hank Aaron.
(d) Cal Ripkin.

4. What were people using the train tracks for in Vijayayawada in Chapter 12?
(a) As a gathering place for feasts.
(b) As a gathering place for selling food.
(c) As a bathroom.
(d) As a place for meeting people.

5. What Sherlock Holmes story did Theroux allude to in Chapter 19?
(a) "A Study in Scarlet."
(b) "The Red-Headed League."
(c) "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
(d) "The Hound of the Baskervilles."

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did not have a single inch of railway track?

2. What term did the Accountant General use when describing the people trying to cheat the government or seek bribes?

3. Where did the Parsis place their dead?

4. How many people had been killed since the cease-fire (as of December 1973)?

5. What university did the professor teach at in Chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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