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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 40-44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hiraku Makimura offers to pay the writer if he will __________ in Chapter 24.
(a) Kill Ame.
(b) Help him write a book.
(c) Drive his car somewhere.
(d) Look after Yuki.

2. When the police question the writer, they ask what he was doing when in Chapter 21?
(a) Two hours ago.
(b) Ten days ago.
(c) Three weeks ago.
(d) The previous night.

3. In Chapter 40, the writer goes to see whom and gives a statement?
(a) Hiraku Makimura.
(b) Fisherman.
(c) Bookish.
(d) Yuki.

4. What does the writer find written on a scrap of paper and left on the windowsill in an apartment building in Chapter 30?
(a) A name.
(b) A phone number.
(c) An address.
(d) Nothing.

5. In Chapter 15, the writer decides to book a flight where?
(a) Sapporo.
(b) Hakone.
(c) Tsujido.
(d) Tokyo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the profession of Yuki's mother in the novel?

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

3. In Chapter 29, alone at the hotel, the writer is greeted by a woman named what?

4. In Chapter 9, the writer develops an elaborate fantasy about what actress?

5. In Chapter 44, the writer panics when Yumiyoshi goes where?

(see the answer key)

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