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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 interrupted Theroux's conversation at the Japanese National Railways office?
(a) Announcements over the loudspeakers.
(b) An emergency warning.
(c) Music over the loudspeakers.
(d) An argument among passengers.

2. How many passengers transferred from the train to the Aomori ferry?
(a) 1,700.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 1,000

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

4. What happened when Theroux saw the drunk Japanese men in the bar in Osaka?
(a) He played pool with them.
(b) They challenged him to a fight.
(c) One of them kissed him.
(d) One of them punched him.

5. What American play was banned under Thieu's regime?
(a) Death of a Salesman.
(b) Our Town.
(c) The Glass Menagerie.
(d) A Streetcar Named Desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Japanese city did Theroux decide he would never bother visiting again?

2. What magazine did the CIA official tell Theroux he wrote for?

3. What did Theroux write was the greatest tragedy of American involvement in Vietnam?

4. What was the American woman shown at the tea house ceremony?

5. How many feet did the train ascend before descending into the gorge in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the American woman living in Sapporo welcomed into the Japanese fold in the story retold in Chapter 27?

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

3. What common prostitution story did Theroux hear numerous times during his travels and how did the story told in Laos differ?

4. How did Theroux describe the clothes laundering he witnessed from the trains in Asia?

5. Why were the Vietnamese focused on providing foreign visitors with privileges?

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

7. Why did Theroux refer to Laos as "America's expensive practical joke"?

8. Why did Mr. Lau dislike Kuala Lumpur?

9. Who were the American-looking children Theroux saw throughout Vietnam?

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

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