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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 did the Professor take with him when he left the System?
2. What does the Colonel give the narrator as winter approaches in Chapter 14?
3. What was supposed to happen on the 2nd at noon?
4. What does the narrator first encounter on his map-making investigations?
5. Why does the narrator say, following the chubby girl's line of thinking, that the two of them will have to help her grandfather?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Librarian say she particularly remembers about her mother in Chapter 22? How does the narrator explain this memory?
2. Describe the process for reading dreams.
3. Explain the narrator's reaction to the skull the Professor gives him as a gift.
4. Describe where the narrator's shadow lives.
5. Describe the procedure the narrator goes through to prepare for shuffling.
6. Give a brief description of the beasts introduced in Chapter 2.
7. Why does the chubby girl think her grandfather's lab hasn't been broken into in Chapter 21?
8. Explain where the narrator is at the beginning of Chapter 1 and what he spends his time doing.
9. Briefly describe the memory the narrator has while climbing the underground tower with the chubby girl.
10. What does the narrator realize in Chapter 17 about Junior's reference to a "time bomb"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain how "shuffling" is done and the significance of this process for the novel's exploration of consciousness.
Essay Topic 2
Being as specific as you can, explain the Tokyo narrator's perception of reality as events unfold at the beginning of the book. Did the narrator's reaction to what is happening assist in your suspension of disbelief? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Giving specific details from the story, explain how Murakami leaves the novel somewhat open-ended and explain what you think might have happened to each of the narrators.
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