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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 6-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the stead where the Dolphin Hotel once stood is a building that is how many stories tall in Chapter 4?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 26.
(d) 41.

2. The Sheep Man's world is a place in the shadows where people go when they need to find out what?
(a) Why they are sick.
(b) How things are connected.
(c) The local gossip.
(d) The meaning of life.

3. The narrator refers to his job as shoveling what in Chapter 2?
(a) Mental dung.
(b) Consumer dribble.
(c) Brain fluff.
(d) Cultural snow.

4. In the stead where the Dolphin Hotel once stood is a building that is designed in what style in Chapter 4?
(a) Bauhaus-Art Deco style.
(b) East Indian style.
(c) Colonial style.
(d) Victorian style.

5. What is the young girl doing the following morning when the narrator sees her again in Chapter 6?
(a) Leaving the hotel.
(b) Sitting in the lobby.
(c) Swimming in the pool.
(d) Having breakfast with her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the writer sit on in the strange room in Chapter 11?

2. What is significant about the manner in which the Sheep Man speaks in the novel?

3. The assignment the protagonist goes on in Chapter 2 involves writing about what?

4. The Sheep Man warns that the writer could get stuck in what in Chapter 11?

5. In describing Ryoichi Gotanda, the writer comments that he never understood how someone could be so what?

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