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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. What is the current name of Ceylon?
(a) Burma.
(b) Siam.
(c) Sri Lanka.
(d) Myanmar.

2. What did the English missionary in Madras claim other missionaries were doing?
(a) Paying people to convert their relatives.
(b) Paying people to get baptized.
(c) Paying people to build churches.
(d) Paying people to get confirmed.

3. What religion was the ship's second mate who disliked Indians and Ceylonese?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Protestant.
(c) Muslim.
(d) Buddhist.

4. What Russian writer did Theroux read on the trip in Chapter 7?
(a) Gogol.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Doestoevsky.
(d) Chekhov.

5. What country did not have a single inch of railway track?
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) Turkemistan.
(c) Uzbekistan.
(d) Pakistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Gandhi's birthplace, visited by Theroux in Chapter 10?

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

3. What American author did Theroux mention in describing Indians in Chapter 9?

4. What was the feast day of the saint to whom the Ceylonese were praying?

5. Who built the jail in Kabul in 1626?

Short Essay Questions

1. How had Afghanistan changed since the military coup of 1973?

2. What is ironic about the treatment of the young Indian man fleeing London's racism in Chapter 7?

3. Why did Theroux find it insane that people were attending an American literature conference in Ceylon?

4. Why did Duffill appear to be so mysterious to Theroux?

5. Why was Theroux unwilling to explain his first impressions of India to Vishnua Bhardwaj, the Accountant General on the train to Simla?

6. What was Molesworth's attitude toward tourism?

7. Describe Mr. Gopal, the embassy liaison man showing the tourist sites to Theroux in Chapter 11.

8. Describe the American hippies encountered by Theroux on the Turkish railway.

9. Why did Theroux think the Orient Express was used as the setting for many stories of criminal intrigues?

10. Why was Theroux fascinated by the taxi driver's offer of a prostitute in the Bay of Bengal?

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