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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what month did Toru run into Naoko on the train?
(a) March.
(b) October.
(c) May.
(d) August.

2. How old is the narrator at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Thirty-two.
(b) Forty.
(c) Twenty-eight.
(d) Thirty-seven.

3. How old did Naoko turn on her birthday in April, 1969?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Eighteen.

4. Which of these things is not something the patients at Ami Hostel do in the evenings?
(a) Watch television.
(b) Read.
(c) Listen to records.
(d) Knit.

5. What is the one thing Toru thinks he knows about the well Naoko describes?
(a) What it smells like.
(b) How its water tastes.
(c) Its depth.
(d) Its location.

6. What was Nagasawa's major?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Legal studies.
(c) Japanese literature.
(d) Medicine.

7. What happened on campus in May?
(a) A bomb threat.
(b) A faculty strike began.
(c) A sit-in for peace.
(d) A student strike began.

8. What does Reiko think Naoko is doing while she is showing Toru around the compound?
(a) Playing tennis.
(b) In a group therapy session.
(c) Gathering wild mushrooms.
(d) Working on new paint and wallpaper.

9. In what city did Toru go to college?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Nagano.
(c) Hiroshima.
(d) Osaka.

10. What did Storm Trooper give Toru at the end of July?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) A radio.
(c) Stationery.
(d) A firefly.

11. What was Toru's major?
(a) Ethnology.
(b) Geography.
(c) Drama.
(d) Physics.

12. How many pages did Naoko send in her letter?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Eleven.

13. What does Toru say that angers Naoko?
(a) "Relax your body."
(b) "I need you."
(c) "Give it some time."
(d) "I'm sorry."

14. What does "Midori" mean?
(a) "Flower."
(b) "Sunlight."
(c) "Green."
(d) "Peach girl."

15. What does Midori tell Toru is being burned at her old high school?
(a) Firewood from trees killed in the winter storms.
(b) Sanitary napkins.
(c) Grass clippings from the athletic fields.
(d) Old exam papers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Naoko's first wish?

2. What did Toru drink as he read the letter for the third time?

3. How many years have passed since the day in the meadow?

4. What does Midori's family do?

5. What was Toru's favorite book?

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