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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who else does the Sheep Professor say has been looking for the Sheep?

3. Who drives the vehicle that arrives to pick up the cat?

4. What does the Main Character find on the mountain road that tells him someone else has been there recently?

5. What does the person whom the Main Character discovers at the unlucky bend in the road admit to having?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the sheep at the sheep farm similar to the people that the Sheep is trying to control?

2. Is the Cat or the Main Character more at home in the world? Please fully support your answer.

3. Explain how the Sheep Professor came to his current state of being.

4. Why is the Sheep able to control the Rat?

5. Is the Sheep Man a part of the physical or the spiritual world?

6. Describe the Dolphin Hotel.

7. How is isolation and alienation of the characters apparent in Chapters 25 and 26?

8. What explanation does the Sheep Man give for the Girlfriend's disappearance?

9. Who is responsible for the Strange Man's death?

10. Why is the Rat able to destroy the Sheep?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Will, the Gain, and the empire define the existence of the Sheep in A Wild Sheep Chase.

1) Explain how the Will, the Gain, and the empire come into existence in the novel.

2) Explain what situations could have existed or occurred that would have prevented these things from occurring.

3) Analyze how the Will, the Gain, and the empire in the novel relate to the world you live in.

Essay Topic 2

Haruki Murakami makes specific choices about what information to include about each character in A Wild Sheep Chase.

1) Imagine that the characters of J, the Business Partner, or the Girl Who'd Sleep with Anyone were not included in the story and explain the impact this would have on the story.

2) What additional information about any single character would have significantly changed the novel? Explain.

3) Is the ex-wife, the Business Partner or the Limo Driver most important to the novel's message? Explain with support from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Is the Main Character a strong person? Support your answer with specifics from A Wild Sheep Chase.

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