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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the couple checks into a hotel in Junitaki, what does the Main character do?
(a) Visits the local library.
(b) Visits the farm next door.
(c) Visits the Town Hall.
(d) Talks to the concierge about the locals.

2. What does the Main Character do on the seventh day of the trip to help locate the Rat?
(a) Places an ad in the paper.
(b) Calls the female friend of the Rat's.
(c) Asks door to door.
(d) Posts fliers around the town.

3. Where do the Girlfriend and the Main Character first go to plan their strategy after exiting their flight?
(a) A coffee shop.
(b) A movie theater.
(c) Their hotel.
(d) A bar.

4. What does the Main Character do just before leaving the villa for the last time?
(a) Collects sheep wool.
(b) Takes some books from the shelves.
(c) Connects the grandfather clock.
(d) Writes a letter to the Girlfriend.

5. In what condition is the Main Character at the beginning of Chapter 41?
(a) He is drunk and hung-over.
(b) He is full of hope for the first time in years.
(c) He is sobbing and filled with despair.
(d) He is sick with a fever and vomiting.

6. Who says that names are given to things with purpose that are familiar and not mass produced?
(a) The person who picks up the cat.
(b) The Girlfriend.
(c) The Main Character.
(d) The station attendant.

7. How do the Girlfriend and the Main Character feel about the Limo Driver?
(a) They think he is hiding something.
(b) They like him.
(c) They are ambivalent towards him.
(d) They dislike him.

8. Who else does the Sheep Professor say has been looking for the Sheep?
(a) A friendly limo driver.
(b) The Rat.
(c) The Strange Man.
(d) A demanding Japanese woman.

9. How do the Main Character and the Girlfriend get to the station after the cat is picked up?
(a) They are taken by the same person who picks up the cat.
(b) The Strange Man sends a different car for them.
(c) They take the Girlfriend's car.
(d) They call a taxicab.

10. Who starts speaking to the Main Character in the darkness in Chapter 38?
(a) The Boss.
(b) The Rat.
(c) The Girlfriend.
(d) The Sheep.

11. Where does the couple first take a train to in Chapter 29?
(a) Honshukido.
(b) Asahikawa.
(c) Shimonoseki.
(d) Wakkanai.

12. Who do the Main Character and the Girlfriend discover is waiting when they arrive at the villa on the mountain?
(a) The Business Partner.
(b) An older woman.
(c) No one.
(d) The Rat.

13. What best describes the Sheep Professor?
(a) Slim with overgrown and graying hair.
(b) Meticulously dressed and formal.
(c) Bald, short and timid.
(d) Large frame, long white hair and stinky.

14. What best describes the appearance of the Dolphin Hotel?
(a) Seedy and slightly intimidating.
(b) Old, but well cared for.
(c) Opulent and beautiful.
(d) Old and rundown.

15. What fantasy does the man have as he is cooking dinner in Chapter 35?
(a) He imagines owning a restaurant.
(b) He imagines getting on a train.
(c) He imagines cooking dinner for the Rat.
(d) He imagines marrying the Girlfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the caretaker say is living in the home on the sheep ranch that the Main Character visits in Chapter 30?

2. Why does the Sheep Man tell the Main Character that he fled to the mountains?

3. Where does the Main Character find sheep wool?

4. What does the Main Character find outside of the villa that indicates someone, other than the Rat, has been there?

5. What does the person who speaks to the Main Character in the darkness in Chapter 38 tell him about the Rat?

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