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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. Why did Fusagi write such short letters to Kohtake?
(a) He had never learned to read and write very well.
(b) He always tried to write in Haiku format.
(c) He was a man of few words.
(d) He just did not like writing very much.

2. What does Kohtake ask the others in the cafe when she gets back from time traveling?
(a) To stop calling her by her maiden name.
(b) To never serve her coffee again.
(c) To always be kind to Fusagi.
(d) To give her more sake.

3. Who comes to the cafe as a time traveler in the section titled The Sisters?
(a) A young, pretty girl no one seems to know.
(b) Nagare's mother.
(c) Hirai's brother.
(d) Kei's mother.

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

5. What does Nagare wonder about Kei at the very end of Part IV?
(a) Whether Kei can give up her baby.
(b) Whether Kei will really want to run the snack bar.
(c) Whether Kei can handle her new job.
(d) Whether Kei will ever want to travel in time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fusagi do for a living?

2. What is one of the first signs of Fusagi's illness for Kohtake?

3. How does Kazu get the ghost in the chair to move so that Hirai can use it?

4. What does Hirai mostly want to do when she visits Kumi in the past?

5. How many seats does Hirai have in her snack bar?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Kohtake's plan for dealing with Fusagi's illness?

2. What does Kazu tell Kohtake about Fusagi's reasons for wanting to return to the past in Part III?

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

4. What does Kazu give to Hirai when she travels in time, and why does she do this?

5. Why does Kohtake ask everyone to call her by her maiden name at the cafe?

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

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

8. What news about Hirai's family does Nagare tell Kohtake in Part IV?

9. How does Fusagi discover Kohtake has come from the past in Part III?

10. What does Kei have that Hirai desperately wants to see?

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