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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What food item was placed on the bar in front of Theroux on the train to Kyoto?
(a) A ball of rice.
(b) A sample of sushi.
(c) A turnip.
(d) A rutabaga.

2. Where were Ghosh and Rahman from?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Ceylon.
(c) India.
(d) Bangladesh.

3. What was the topic of the conference Ghosh and Rahman attended in Singapore?
(a) Economic development.
(b) Refugee resettlement.
(c) Religious freedom.
(d) Family planning.

4. What was the name of the American English teacher in Hakodate?
(a) Matt.
(b) Charles.
(c) Chester.
(d) Carl.

5. What word was tattooed on the American civilian worker's right hand?
(a) Tiger.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Lion.
(d) Jaguar.

6. Where did the tattooed American think he needed to go to earn a lot of money?
(a) Hong Kong.
(b) Singapore.
(c) Beijing.
(d) Macau.

7. In what year was the Goktiek Viaduct built?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1905.

8. What did the security officer note Theroux did not have when he claimed to be a tourist?
(a) A tourguide book.
(b) A camera.
(c) A passport.
(d) Luggage.

9. How many hotels did Mandalay have?
(a) Five.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

10. How much did it cost to go to the Japanese bath?
(a) Thirty dollars.
(b) Twenty dollars.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) Fifteen dollars.

11. Why did the young man leaving Bangalore to go to Bangkok in Chapter 16?
(a) To escape his parents.
(b) To escape a debtor.
(c) To escape his wife.
(d) To escape his girlfriend.

12. To what American author did Theroux compare the Japanese writer, Hirai Taro?
(a) Samuel Clemens.
(b) Jack London.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe.
(d) Mark Twain.

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

14. What book was Mr. Thanoo reading in Chapter 21?
(a) A Bend in the River.
(b) Colonel Sun.
(c) Kim.
(d) A Passage to India.

15. What did Theroux write was the greatest tragedy of American involvement in Vietnam?
(a) That we had backed the wrong side.
(b) That we had stayed too long.
(c) That we never planned to stay.
(d) That we had come in the first place.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far apart are Tokyo and Kyoto?

2. Why was William Clark so revered in Japan?

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

4. How did Mr. Shigahara describe the Japanese' commitment to Buddhism?

5. Why were there so few skiers on the train to Sapporo?

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