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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 12-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the writer and the girl arrive in Chapter 16?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Kathmandu.
(c) Haneda.
(d) Sapporo.

2. The protagonist makes an analogy of the Dolphin Hotel to what in Chapter 1?
(a) A button.
(b) A match.
(c) A castle.
(d) A dungeon.

3. Where do the writer and photographer arrive in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Haneda.
(b) Honolulu.
(c) Hokkaido.
(d) Hakodate.

4. What literary style does the narrator describe as rhetoric for rhetoric's sake in Chapter 17?
(a) French nouvelle vague.
(b) Post-modern.
(c) Dadaist.
(d) Western modernist.

5. What is the name of Yuki's father in the novel?
(a) Hiraku Makimura.
(b) Bookish.
(c) Fisherman.
(d) Ryoichi Gotanda.

Short Answer Questions

1. The character named Kiki was what before becoming an actress?

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

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

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

5. The narrator of the novel describes the Dolphin Hotel as having been built where in Chapter 1?

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