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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kei know something bad has happened and that is why Hirai travels through time?
(a) Hirai tells Kei what has happened.
(b) Hirai never wants to see her sister Kumi, but suddenly now she is desperate to.
(c) Kei overhears Hirai telling Kumi she is going to die soon.
(d) Hirai starts crying immediately when she time travels.

2. What happens if someone traveling in time leaves the seat they travel in?
(a) They will make it so that they had never been born.
(b) They are returned forcefully to the present.
(c) They disrupt the time-space continuum.
(d) They die.

3. What food item is Nagare's specialty?
(a) Jam.
(b) Homemade butter.
(c) Cream.
(d) Cake.

4. What happens when Hirai goes back home for her sister's funeral?
(a) Her uncle banishes her.
(b) Her car breaks down and she misses the funeral.
(c) Her parents refuse to speak with her.
(d) She faints and has to spend time in the hospital.

5. What is the meaning of the name of Hirai's family's inn?
(a) The Chair.
(b) The Freeway.
(c) The Treasury.
(d) The Bank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness does Fusagi have?

2. Who gives Hirai the letter from Kumi?

3. What does the young girl who is the time traveler in the section The Sisters want to do with Kei?

4. What phrase does Kawaguchi use to explain why some people become more emotional in the presence of close friends or family?

5. What town in Japan is Harai's family inn located in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first rule of time travel that will be no problem in Kohtake's case?

2. What explanation does Hirai eventually give for her strange behavior at the cafe in Part IV?

3. Why is Kohtake stunned that Fusagi has written her a letter?

4. What does Fusagi say to Kohtake that guts her in Part III?

5. How would you describe the relationship between Kohtake, Kazu and Kei?

6. What does Kei do to help lift Kohtake's spirits in Part III?

7. What does Kohtake tell Fusagi out of a sense of love and loyalty in Part III about his illness when she time travels?

8. What does Nagare ask Hirai that stops her in her tracks in Part IV?

9. Why is the cafe a desirable destination in the summertime?

10. What does Hirai do in haste that has a bad outcome in Part IV?

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