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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about the manner in which the Sheep Man speaks in the novel?
(a) He writes everything down instead of using his voice.
(b) He never speaks the letter "a."
(c) His words all run together.
(d) He starts every sentence with "I think."

2. What was the manager's reaction when the receptionist told him about her strange experience, as told in Chapter 7?
(a) He told her not to tell anyone.
(b) He went to check it out.
(c) He said she was crazy.
(d) He sent the janitor to check it out.

3. Ryoichi Gotanda was a former what to the narrator?
(a) Political rival.
(b) Lover.
(c) Wife.
(d) Lab partner.

4. When the protagonist thinks of the Dolphin Hotel in Chapter 1, he recalls it as being what?
(a) Opulent.
(b) Extravagant.
(c) A dive.
(d) A skyscraper.

5. What has the Dolphin Hotel been renamed in Chapter 4?
(a) L'Hôtel Dauphin.
(b) The Hilton.
(c) The Ritz.
(d) Hotel Japan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator go to find the news article about the selling of the hotel in Chapter 7?

2. The protagonist tells his business connections that he must take a trip for how long in Chapter 3?

3. Where do the writer and photographer arrive in the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. What season was it when the writer returned to society after his reclusive bout described in Chapter 2?

5. The Sheep Man tells the writer that his people were chased where long ago in Chapter 11?

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