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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrative voice of the novel?
(a) Third person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Fourth person.
(d) First person.

2. 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) He starts every sentence with "I think."
(d) His words all run together.

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

4. How many times has the protagonist been divorced in the novel?
(a) Three times.
(b) Never.
(c) Twice.
(d) Once.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the actress the writer sees being seduced in the film in Chapter 14?

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

3. The narrator considers what to be a stupid name for a band in Chapter 6?

4. When does the receptionist wake up the writer in Chapter 12?

5. The narrator refers to his job as shoveling what in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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