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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Sheep Professor tell Main Character and the Girlfriend that the sheep plans to do?
(a) Turn the running of the world over to the animals.
(b) Transform humanity.
(c) Kill the Boss and take over Japan.
(d) Unite the sheep of the world.

2. What is the Main Character doing on the tenth day of his visit when the Sheep Man returns to the villa?
(a) Playing the guitar.
(b) Scrubbing the floor.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Reading a book.

3. Where does the Sheep Professor tell the Main Character and the Girlfriend that it is considered a blessing for a sheep to enter a human?
(a) Nepal.
(b) Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.
(c) Southern China and Vietnam.
(d) Northern China and Mongolia.

4. Whose death is revealed by the person the Main Character discovers at the unlucky bend in the road?
(a) The Business Partner's.
(b) The Girlfriend's.
(c) The Sheep Professor's.
(d) The Boss's.

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

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

7. What does the Main Character find in the Pan-Asian book in the villa?
(a) A photograph of himself and the Business Partner.
(b) A large check in his name.
(c) A list of addresses.
(d) A recipe.

8. Who drives the vehicle that arrives to pick up the cat?
(a) The Limo Driver.
(b) The Business Partner's brother-in-law.
(c) The Strange Man.
(d) An American with a poor accent.

9. What does the mirror reveal about the Sheep Man?
(a) His appearance underneath the sheep costume.
(b) He has no reflection.
(c) His true intentions.
(d) His relationship with the Boss.

10. Where do the Girlfriend and the Main Character find a phone book to look up hotels?
(a) In the bookstore.
(b) In a boutique.
(c) At the Ovine Theater.
(d) At a restaurant.

11. During the naming discussion in Chapter 24, what object is mentioned as a thing that is not named?
(a) Plants.
(b) Computers.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Buses.

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

13. What does the person who agrees to pick up the Main Character and the Girlfriend at 8:00 the next morning in Chapter 31 warn him?
(a) That the mountain roads will be soft from rain.
(b) That it will be a long and arduous journey.
(c) That they will be changed after their journey.
(d) That they are travelling into a cursed area.

14. What does the visitor to the villa tell the Main Character to do before leaving the next day?
(a) Unplug all the appliances.
(b) Copy down the data in the book.
(c) Collect all the sheep wool he can.
(d) Set the grandfather clock.

15. What does the person whom the Main Character discovers at the unlucky bend in the road admit to having?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A plan to take over the world.
(c) A sixth sense.
(d) A hostage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Main Character and the Girlfriend get to the station after the cat is picked up?

2. What does the caretaker at the ranch tell the Main Character that he must do to the sheep on the day of his visit?

3. Who says that names are given to things with purpose that are familiar and not mass produced?

4. Who does the Main Character discover is originally from Hokkaido?

5. What type of station do the Main Character and the Girlfriend go to in Chapter 24?

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