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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In describing Ryoichi Gotanda, the writer comments that he never understood how someone could be so what?
(a) Cruel.
(b) Callous.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Ignorant.

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

3. How old is the girl that the narrator sees in the bar in Chapter 6?
(a) 13.
(b) 14.
(c) 11.
(d) 15.

4. The receptionist at the hotel talks to the writer under the guise of discussing what in Chapter 7?
(a) Car rentals.
(b) Local traditions.
(c) Area attractions.
(d) Restaurants.

5. Whom does the writer find to act like a wooden figure in Chapter 37?
(a) Ame.
(b) Yuki.
(c) Bookish.
(d) Hiraku Makimura.

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist's job consisted mostly of what type of work in the beginning, as described in Chapter 3?

2. Ryoichi Gotanda was a former what to the narrator?

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

4. The receptionist at the Dolphin Hotel tells the writer that she is now afraid to do what in Chapter 27?

5. In Chapter 33, the writer's life is relatively normal although he does not what?

(see the answer key)

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