The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 126 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 126 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. How many deserters did Dial estimate remained in Vietnam?
(a) About 50.
(b) About 300.
(c) About 200.
(d) About 500.

2. How many rooms were in Bernard's mansion?
(a) Forty.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Twenty.

3. What did Theroux witness the Japanese workers doing at the National Railways office?
(a) Jumping jacks.
(b) Pilates.
(c) Calisthenics.
(d) Tai Chi.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word was tattooed on the American civilian worker's right hand?

3. Where had the young man traveling to Bangkok sought romantic advice?

4. What did every train include in the Goktiek area?

5. What was the Vietnamese woman doing with the half-American baby on the train through Vietnam?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Westerners and Japanese react to the suicide of the Japanese writer, Yukio Mishima?

2. Why did Theroux find the Singapore government's prediction of electronic connectedness so disturbing?

3. Why was the man on the train to Calcutta running away from his girlfriend?

4. Describe Theroux's visit to the tourism office in Vietnam.

5. What are the differences between Japanese and American consumers?

6. Why did Theroux leave behind his passport and camera while trying to go to the Goktiek Viaduct?

7. Why did Theroux describe the Burmese government as a Buddhist bureaucracy?

8. What did Theroux find disturbing about Osaka?

9. What image was brought to mind by the sight of the Japanese workers doing mass calisthenics?

10. Why did Theroux say that the Malay smile was misleading?

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