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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 are all the songs on the radio related to the morning the narrator spends at the librarian's house?
2. What song does the narrator begin to whistle in the sewer side vent?
3. What does the narrator say was his "training" for tuning in on a better life?
4. At the end of the book, why does the narrator say he has to stay?
5. What does the chubby girl begin reading in the narrator's apartment?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the Caretaker of the Power Station feel about the musical instruments?
2. How does the narrator react to the musical instruments in Chapter 28?
3. What doubts about leaving the Town does the narrator voice to his shadow in Chapter 32?
4. Explain the parallels between the video game the narrator plays at the beginning of Chapter 35 and his life.
5. How does the narrator explain his decision in Chapter 40?
6. Describe the Town's power source.
7. Why does the narrator say looking for the Librarian's mind is not like looking for raindrops?
8. What does the narrator say he plans to do with the Librarian's mind once he has read it?
9. Explain the importance of belief as described in Chapter 34.
10. Explain what the narrator thinks about the stars as he is making his way through the underground escape route towards the end of Chapter 29.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain some of the main characteristics of existentialist literature and describe how Murakami's novel is similar.
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
Give a detailed description of the Hard-Boiled Wonderland narrator's personality and explain how he changes throughout the novel.
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