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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object does the Main Character discover in a book at the villa while he is waiting for the Rat to arrive?
(a) The ad he submitted seeking the Rat.
(b) The bulletin with the starred sheep.
(c) The Strange Man's business card.
(d) A paper-thin mirror.

2. What do the Main Character and the Girlfriend observe as they go further up the mountain road?
(a) There are headstones along the roadside.
(b) The road worsens.
(c) Everything has been burned to the ground.
(d) There is a single small hut every few miles.

3. Who is the Sheep Professor?
(a) The father of the owner of the Ovine Theater.
(b) A retired professor who live above the bookstore.
(c) A retired professor who owns the bookstore.
(d) The father of the owner of the Dolphin Hotel.

4. Where does the visitor to the villa tell the Main Character that the Rat is located?
(a) At the Dolphin Hotel.
(b) He says the Rat is dead.
(c) He says he does not know.
(d) In the garage.

5. Why does the caretaker admit that he will not take the Main Character and the Girlfriend any further up the mountain road?
(a) He believes it is unlucky.
(b) He has run out of gas.
(c) He has been paid to stop here.
(d) He has been threatened if he takes them any further.

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

7. Where did the Sheep Professor once work?
(a) The Japanese Secret Service.
(b) The Ministry of Science.
(c) The US Army.
(d) The Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture.

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

9. Whose suicide is revealed in Part 8?
(a) The Girlfriend's.
(b) The Rat's.
(c) The Boss's.
(d) The Sheep Man's.

10. 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.

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

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

13. What is the person who picks up the cat amazed to discover?
(a) It has no tail.
(b) It has only one eye.
(c) It has no name.
(d) It has a star on its belly.

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

15. What does the Main Character find on the mountain road that tells him someone else has been there recently?
(a) Tire marks.
(b) A hat.
(c) A cigarette butt.
(d) Footprints.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Main Character and the Girlfriend eat after arriving at the station in Chapter 24?

2. What was the Dolphin Hotel before it was a hotel?

3. After the couple checks into a hotel in Junitaki, what does the Main character do?

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

5. Who arrives at the villa and tells the Main Character that he has behaved selfishly?

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