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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. On what basis do the Girlfriend and the Main Character select a hotel to stay in?

2. Where do the Girlfriend and the Main Character first go to plan their strategy after exiting their flight?

3. What does the Main Character do just before leaving the villa for the last time?

4. What does the Main Character do on the seventh day of the trip to help locate the Rat?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Is the Limo Driver an intelligent man?

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

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

4. What is the importance of time to the characters in Chapter 24?

5. How does the Limo Driver feel about the cat?

6. What factors contribute to the eerie feeling of the area near the villa in Junitaki?

7. Do the Girlfriend's ears help the quest while staying at the Dolphin Hotel?

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

9. Aside from her powerful ears, is the Girlfriend a help or a hindrance to the Main Character?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Imagine that A Wild Sheep Chase is told from a strictly historical perspective rather that with the surreal quality. In other words, that science is used to explain any mystical events in the novel. How would this impact the message of the story, the growth of the characters and the experience of the readers? Do you feel this could be effectively accomplished?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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