Kafka on the Shore Test | Final Test - Easy

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Kafka on the Shore Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film does Kafka watch upon arriving at the desolate village?
(a) The Sound of Music.
(b) Mary Poppins.
(c) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
(d) The Wizard of Oz.

2. What color is the entrance stone?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

3. Why does Kafka think his mother abandoned him?
(a) Because his father demanded it.
(b) Because she hated him.
(c) Because she was not his real mother.
(d) Because she was afraid of loving him.

4. How old was Mrs. Saeki when she opened the entrance stone for the first time?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 40.

5. What type of people did Mrs. Saeki write a book about?
(a) People who had died and come back to life.
(b) People who had been abandoned as children.
(c) People who had unusual animals as pets.
(d) People who had been struck by lightning.

6. Which of the following spirits frequents Kafka's bedroom while he is sleeping?
(a) A beautiful young woman.
(b) A scarred infant child.
(c) A scruffy old man.
(d) A middle-aged man in a business suit.

7. Which of the following items is NOT a theme in the song "Kafka on the Shore"?
(a) Knives.
(b) Cats.
(c) Fish.
(d) The Sphynx.

8. What does Kafka bring with him into the woods in case he should decide to kill himself?
(a) A gun.
(b) A handful of arsenic.
(c) A knife.
(d) A noose.

9. Who do the police suspect has hired Nakata as a hit man?
(a) Oshima.
(b) Kafka.
(c) Johnny Walker.
(d) Mrs. Saeki.

10. How does Nakata feel after the entrance stone is flipped?
(a) Tired.
(b) Confused.
(c) Excited.
(d) Hungry.

11. What type of store does Oshima's brother own?
(a) A cake shop.
(b) A surf shop.
(c) A tuxedo shop.
(d) A pet shop.

12. Whose spirit does Mrs. Saeki think is living inside Kafka's body?
(a) She thinks Kafka has an empty soul.
(b) Kafka's father's.
(c) Her dead lover's.
(d) Franz Kafka's.

13. How does the entrance stone change before it opens?
(a) It grows heavier.
(b) It begins to float.
(c) It changes color.
(d) It begins to disappear.

14. Where does Oshima find a copy of Mrs. Saeki's hit song on vinyl?
(a) In a garbage dump.
(b) In his mother's collection.
(c) On the Internet.
(d) In the library's collection.

15. Where does Hoshino promise to take Nakata when things blow over with the police?
(a) To an aviary.
(b) To a botanical garden.
(c) To an aquarium.
(d) To the zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is pachinko?

2. Who is the only other person that Kafka encounters as he is wandering through the woods?

3. What does Mrs. Saeki claim defines Kafka even though he is very young?

4. Which of the following groups of people disappeared in the woods near Oshima's cabin?

5. What is the name of Mrs. Saeki's spirit?

(see the answer keys)

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