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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, pages 101-126.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is the narrator's birthday?
(a) June 18, 1950.
(b) April 7, 1945.
(c) January 4, 1925.
(d) February 10, 1931.

2. How does the narrator incite a feeling of superiority around his classmates?
(a) Proving his intelligence.
(b) Crude remarks.
(c) Showing off his money.
(d) Taking medication.

3. What does the narrator find attractive about Sumiko?
(a) Her chest.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her overbite.
(d) Her underbite.

4. What effect do death and blood have on the narrator during puberty?
(a) They frighten him.
(b) They arouse him.
(c) The repulse him.
(d) They haunt him.

5. What do the boys at school believe about Omi?
(a) All of these.
(b) He is well endowed.
(c) He is someone to fear.
(d) He has had sex with many women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position do most of the boys at school volunteer for during the war?

2. What do the schoolboys call the graphic game they play with each other?

3. Whom does the narrator relate to in the stories he reads?

4. From what does Katakura die?

5. What does Reni's "Saint Sebastian" cause the narrator to do for the first time?

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