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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Professor say will happen in regards to the narrator's three cognitive circuits?

2. What does the narrator make of the librarian's appetite at the beginning of Chapter 9?

3. What time of year does the narrator say it is at the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. What does the narrator wish he could be, in thinking about the girl in the Skyline?

5. What does the narrator count while in the elevator at the beginning of Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the process for reading dreams.

2. Give a brief description of the beasts introduced in Chapter 2.

3. What do you know about the Wall surrounding the Town based on your readings in Chapter 10?

4. Explain what "The End of the World" is according to the Professor's explanation in Chapter 25.

5. What does the Colonel tell the narrator about the Woods and the Woodspeople in Chapter 14?

6. What does the narrator's conversation with the Librarian about where he came from tell the reader about the nature of the Town?

7. Describe the Collection Room.

8. Explain the narrator's reaction to the skull the Professor gives him as a gift.

9. What information does the chubby girl in pink get from reading her grandfather's notebook in Chapter 19?

10. What does the Librarian say she particularly remembers about her mother in Chapter 22? How does the narrator explain this memory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the author's attention to the physical needs of the characters in each storyline and explain how Murakami's depictions add to the overall effect of the story.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 37, the narrator says he was born by the sea and liked to collect things washed on shore by the typhoon. He says his life has always been about "gathering up the junk, sorting through it, and then casting it off somewhere else. All for no purpose...". Explain how the narrator's current life is this way and draw parallels between this and the people in the Town.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the video game the Tokyo narrator plays while waiting for his date with the librarian and draw parallels to his own situation. Describe the video game the Tokyo narrator plays while waiting for his date with the librarian and draw parallels to his own situation.

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