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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Main Character discover when he wakes up in Chapter 33?
(a) The Girlfriend is crying.
(b) There is a sheep in the room.
(c) The Girlfriend is gone.
(d) There is an envelope on the table.

3. 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) Asks door to door.
(c) Posts fliers around the town.
(d) Calls the female friend of the Rat's.

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

5. 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.

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

7. What does the Girlfriend tell the Main Character that she has learned after their first day of research and hunting for the sheep?
(a) The government has stopped tracking sheep.
(b) The government will not disclose their tracking data.
(c) There are no maps of a certain area of this region.
(d) Some local maps have blacked out portions.

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

9. What does the Territorial Government name the area where the Sheep Professor's homestead is located?
(a) Ovine Valley Settlement.
(b) Honshu Plain Settlement.
(c) Twelve Falls Settlement.
(d) Tsugaru Settlement.

10. 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 they are travelling into a cursed area.
(b) That they will be changed after their journey.
(c) That it will be a long and arduous journey.
(d) That the mountain roads will be soft from rain.

11. Who does the Main Character discover is originally from Hokkaido?
(a) The Business Partner.
(b) The Boss.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) The Strange Man.

12. Whom does the Main Character get to agree to pickup himself and the Girlfriend at 8:00 the next morning in Chapter 31?
(a) The caretaker's son.
(b) The caretaker.
(c) A mountain guide.
(d) The livestock inspector.

13. What do the Main Character and the Girlfriend discuss after arriving at the station in Chapter 24?
(a) Time saved by their mode of transportation.
(b) The Girlfriend's ears.
(c) God's inefficiencies.
(d) The downfalls of naming a child.

14. What strategy do the Girlfriend and the Main Character come up with for hunting the sheep?
(a) She will interview locals and he will research sheep.
(b) She will research sheep and he will locate the area of the photo.
(c) She will locate the area of the photo and he will talk to business owners.
(d) She will get maps of the area and he talk to sheep owners.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Sheep Professor in 1935?

2. What object does the Main Character discover in a book at the villa while he is waiting for the Rat to arrive?

3. In what condition is the Main Character at the beginning of Chapter 41?

4. Where did the Sheep Professor once work?

5. What does the visitor to the villa tell the Main Character to do before leaving the next day?

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