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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 Miho notice on page 33 that Keiko bought at Omotesando?
2. How long before the Smile Mart opened did Keiko and the other new employers work in pairs role-playing how to deal with imaginary customers?
3. When Keiko began training to work at the Smile Mart, how many other employees were at the training session?
4. On page 1, what is a woman examining while holding a bottle of mineral water?
5. How many managers has Keiko worked under since she began working at the Smile Mart?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened when a rival store closed down four years after Keiko's store opened?
2. What does Keiko remember about the various managers who have worked at the store since she started?
3. Why does Keiko say that the convenience store is a world of sound?
4. Why does Keiko have mixed feelings about visiting Miho?
5. What was the conclusion when Keiko's parents took her to see a therapist?
6. Why were Keiko's actions thought to be strange when she found a dead bird in the park when she was in nursery school?
7. When Keiko goes to visit her sister, what does she think about her nephew?
8. What does Shiraha look like when Keiko meets him?
9. Who is Mrs. Izumi?
10. When did Keiko realize she should not have stopped a fight between two boys with a shovel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Keiko works hard to fit in. How does Keiko work to fit in? Has her personality changed since childhood or is she pretending to have changed?
Essay Topic 2
What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view of Convenience Store Woman? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters, especially Keiko?
Essay Topic 3
People make assumptions about Keiko. What do people assume about Keiko? Why does Keiko feel like she is being criticized because of the assumptions people make about her?
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